Pollutants and Street Tree Health
Trees vary in their responses to air and soil borne pollutants; some are sensitive while others are tolerant of some or many pollutants…
Moore, Greg
Flooding following Drought: a Swift and Subtle Killer of Stressed Trees
After the prolonged dry period experienced in south-eastern Australia from 1998-2010, large numbers of trees
suffered significant stress in both urban and their natural environments…
Culturally significant trees: A brief TREENET case study
The tangible and visible history of our State, in the form of man-made monuments will take us back no more than 150 years, but trees are living monuments capable of transporting us 400 years into the past’…
The use of trees in urban stormwater management
Sustainable stormwater management presents unique challenges and opportunities in the urban built environment. The disposal of stormwater directly from impervious urban surfaces into surrounding waterways is detrimental to the aquatic environment…
Arboricultural strategies for climate change
While it is usually assumed that the impacts of climate change on street trees and urban forests will be deleterious, the real scenario will be more subtle. Some species will benefit from climate change and others will be disadvantaged…
TREE MANAGEMENT FOR CARBON, ENERGY AND DROUGHT EFFICIENCY
At the Treenet Symposium in 2006, the issue of the greenhouse effect and climate change were major topics of the opening session…
Urban tree valuation
Dr G M Moore Head of the School of Resource Management and Burnley Campus, University of Melbourne, Burnley Gardens, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, 3121 INTRODUCTION The processes for developing an Australian Standard for amenity tree evaluation have been difficult, with the first attempts occurring over thirty years ago. An initial draft was released for comment …
Urban trees and the global greenhouse
DR G M MOORE Head of the School of Resource Management and Burnley Campus, University of Melbourne, Burnley Gardens, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, 3121 INTRODUCTION “Humanity is conducting an unintentional, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment, whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war…It is imperative to act now!” (World Conference on the …
The Winds of Climate Change Are Already Blowing In the Direction of Australian Arboriculture
A recent request to write briefly about the trends affecting Australian arboriculture proved to be a difficult task. In considering a country that is continental…
Defending and Expanding the Urban Forest: Opposing unnecessary tree removal requests.
The removal of senescing trees or those which pose a genuine risk to health or property is part of professional urban tree management. However, there are many requests for tree removals that are not based on a genuine likelihood of injury or property damage, but rather on an unfounded fear of what might happen or where the tree is considered to be in the way of some other activity…