Microclimate benefits that different street tree species provide to sidewalk pedestrians relate to differences in Plant Area Index

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Funding Acknowledgements

Financial support from the City of Melbourne Research Fund and the Nursery and Garden Industry Australia are gratefully acknowledged. The authors wish to thank our colleagues and PhD students (Alessandro Ossola, Luis Mata, Jesse Kurylo) who assisted throughout the data collection for this study. We also thank the City of Yarra and City of Darebin for allowing us to conduct our research in Richmond, Fitzroy and Northcote, also the Statistical Consulting Centre of the University of Melbourne for their assistance in the data analysis.