Improving local air quality in cities: to tree or not to tree?

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Environmental Pollution

• Publication date

  2013-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.10.021PMID 23194646
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