Abstract
Urban flora, encompassing trees, shrubs, vines, and ground covers, have conspicuously demonstrated their remarkable functional advantages in fortifying the ecological milieu. Moreover, they have proven effective in curtailing carbon emissions and sequestering carbon, thus mitigating the challenges arising from the energy crisis and environmental degradation, which are precipitated by the rapid process of urbanization. In this context, they serve as a pivotal conduit for the realization of the low-carbon paradigm. However, aiming at the condition of the current landscape construction at the same time, the analysis pointed out that some problems and errors in the design of plant landscape, such as ignoring the application of native tree species, unreasonable plant configuration, blind selection of large-size trees, and pursuit of the one-time rapid effect of landscape, etc., which will lead to high energy consumption and high carbon emission problems. This paper is dedicated to a comprehensive analysis and exploration of the intrinsic requirements for the incorporation of the low-carbon concept within the domain of plant landscape design, proposed solutions to address the above is-sues, based on the operational mechanism of plants directly or indirectly promoting low-carbon achievements.
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