Abstract
Healthy forest offers many ecosystem services, including maintaining biodiversity, increasing carbon sequestration, decreasing air pollution, and improving human physical and mental health. People can exercise, enjoy recreation, exchange the neighborhood ideas in their urban green space. Climate change may cause the disaster of urban area, such as heavy rainfall, heat island effect, and air pollution, fortunately the green space in cities can mitigate the impact and build the adaptative capacity. Urban green space in Taiwan is in a situation with highly artificialization, habitat degradation, overused land, restriction of native species, invasion of exotic species, and deficiency of the community consciousness. Modifying urban green space management is an urgent issue. Knowledge of ecology and forestry should be integrated into the issue. The aim of the study is to establish a multi-layer forest in the urban park by selecting functional plant species from understory, shrubs and canopy, which helps to improve the adaptative capacity of urban green space. Biodiversity monitoring including the survey of epigeous insects, wasps and birds will be conducted to examine the function of urban ecosystem. We also will establish a team for longterm biodiversity monitoring in urban and reinforce the community consciousness.The goals of the study are1. establishing demonstration plots in urban forests,2. improving the function and service of urban ecosystem,3. offering technical advices of increasing urban biodiverstiy,4. upgrading the community's attention to its surrounding urban green space, and5. sharing the ecological data of the demonstration plots in the urban forests.