Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Year Published: 2014
Warming associated with urban development will be exacerbated in future years by temperature increases due to climate change. The strategic implementation of urban green infrastructure…
Author(s): Anderson, Sharolyn
Year Published: 2014
In Autumn 2014, the UniSA Environmental Informatics master’s course took on the project of mapping Green Infrastructure in Adelaide. This was a natural progression…
Author(s): Burgess, Adam | Richardson, Mark
Year Published: 2014
The National Arboretum Canberra (NAC) was opened in February 2013. With planting having started in 2007, there are now 94 forests on a site of 250 ha representing rare, threatened or otherwise significant trees from around the world…
Author(s): Foley, Anna
Year Published: 2014
Building on the success of the Trust Trees app launched in Victoria in 2011, the new National Trusts of Australia Register of Significant Trees website will be completed in August 2014. This brings the Trusts’ state-based significant tree data together as one national dataset for the first time…
Author(s): Beecham, Simon | Lucke, Terry
Year Published: 2018
Street trees have long been associated with increased residential house prices and provide many environmental, economic and social benefits in both residential and commercial precincts…
Author(s): Bodenstaff, Rob
Year Published: 2015
The successful retention of city trees is being pressured by infill development; and a reduction of the space provided for new trees to grow successfully…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2004
It is difficult to predict what the research priorities should be in relation to the management of urban trees in South Eastern Australia…
Author(s): Ellis, Maree | Faulconer, Patrick
Year Published: 2004
Shoalhaven City Council has revised its Tree Preservation Order. It now exempts “Tree works on private land where any part of a tree is above a line 45 degrees from the vertical extension of the wall of any building measured from its base”. This rule is confusing and it does not work…
Author(s): McAlister, Ed
Year Published: 2003
Given my background, most people assume that I will have a strong preference for plants from
Author(s): See, Maureen
Year Published: 2003
Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Museum have created two ground-breaking series of Urban
Author(s): Lawton, Peter
Year Published: 2003
The trial set out to develop ideas for a simple, low cost flood and drain rack – for use with a proposed new family of 3D air-pruning propagation cells. The cells and their nursery environment are being designed to work in harmony…
Author(s): Clark, Ross
Year Published: 2003
The new NATSPEC specification for trees was released in February 2003 as part of Specifying Trees – Ross Clark NATSPEC//Construction Information…
Author(s): Fitzgibbon, John
Year Published: 2003
As tree growers, we are frequently asked for “new” lines that will grow well under most conditions,
Author(s): Brown, Ian
Year Published: 2003
Tree Trial: Do we need one? Is anybody interested?
In the ideal Nursery world we could all still be growing trees in kerosene containers…
Author(s): Moore, Derek
Year Published: 2003
The establishment of a well designed trial that will last at least 25 years to investigate tree root growth and how it’s affected by various propagation and production systems is not only exciting…
Author(s): Cassar, Sam
Year Published: 2003
The tools used to manage and maintain street trees vary considerably from hand tools and power tools, to machinery and management processes…
Author(s): Sweeney, Karen
Year Published: 2009
The City of Sydney (the City) has undergone a massive change in its awareness, understanding and appreciation of trees within the past 10 years. Numerous tree management policies have been written, adopted and executed…
