Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Author(s): Parke, Neridah | Plant, Lyndal
Year Published: 2007
In July 2007 Brisbane City Council published an Avenues of Honour Research Report about twenty four known memorial and commemorative tree planting sites within the Brisbane City Council area, in support of the national project. Among those planting sites are some of the earliest plantings in Australia undertaken in 1917 for local soldiers who lost their lives in World War One…
Author(s): Smart, Robert
Year Published: 2011
Arterra Design is a professional consultancy specialising in landscape architecture, site planning, consulting arboriculture and water sensitive urban design. Our mission is to design, communicate and construct memorable places that are creative, elegant, functional and enduring…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2011
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…
Author(s): Barton, Craig
Year Published: 2011
Atmospheric CO2 concentration (Ca) has risen from 280 mol mol to the current concentration of ca. 390 μmol mol-1 over the last 150 years…
Year Published: 2011
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…
Author(s): Cunningham, Brian
Year Published: 2011
In March 2010 the State Executive Committee of the Local Government Association of South Australia (LGA) agreed to conduct, in conjunction with the LGA Mutual Liability Scheme (MLS), an independent Inquiry into the management of trees located on land under the care and control of councils…
Author(s): Cooney, David
Year Published: 2011
Local Government recognises the importance of trees in the urban and rural landscape. Trees are an important community asset, providing a number of benefits…
Author(s): Cassar, Sam
Year Published: 2011
Historic (culturally significant) trees, streetscapes and avenues form significant landscape features and have a large impact on the landscape, both visually and environmentally…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2011
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’…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2011
The Newcastle City Council Tree Asset Management System (TAMS) records 109,000 street and park trees of which 1217 are the Hills Fig (Ficus microcarpa var Hilli). The Hills Fig public tree population comprises 832 semi-mature trees and 374 mature trees…
Author(s): Bennett, John | Clay, Roger | Ewenz, Cacilia | Guan, Huade | Kent, Chris | Vinodkumar | Weinstein, Phil
Year Published: 2012
Author(s): Lodge, Marcus
Year Published: 2012
Burnside Village is a relatively major suburban shopping centre servicing the eastern suburbs of Adelaide. The owners of the shopping centre have tried to maintain the ‘village’ feel of the shopping centre through various developments over the past 20-30 years…
Author(s): Dalwood, Grant
Year Published: 2012
In April 2010 Myrtle rust was detected in Australia on the Central Coast of New South Wales (NSW). A national response was agreed to under…
Author(s): Lensink, Michelle
Year Published: 2012
The laws which protect vegetation from damage and clearance across states and territories in Australia vary
considerably…
Year Published: 2012
Many Council’s are now proactively managing their trees as assets, and are identifying those with special
relevance to the community…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2012
In the early 1930’s the industrial city of Newcastle NSW, encouraged by Mayor Ald C J Parker, began extensive planting of trees, especially Hills Weeping Fig…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2012
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…
Author(s): Deng, Zijuan | Guan, Huade
Year Published: 2012
Identifying water status of urban trees is important not only because it’s an indicator for tree drought tolerance but also useful to improve tree water use management…
Author(s): Beecham, Simon | Razzaghmanesh, Mostafa
Year Published: 2012
Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world and 85% of its inhabitants live in towns or cities.
Urbanization growth increases impervious areas such as roads, roofs, parking lots, highways and pavers in the
metropolitan areas…
