PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 2006

Space for Urban Wildlife: Designing Green Roofs as Habitats in Switzerland

Glossary

Extensive green roofs
A low-management type of green roof that has soil depths ranging from three to seven inches. Due to the shallow soils and the extreme environment on many roofs, plants are typically low-growing groundcover species that are extremely sun and drought tolerant.
Brownfield
Formerly developed land.