Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Year Published: 2017
Urbanisation and a changing climate are leading to more frequent and severe flood, heat and air pollution episodes in Britain’s cities. Interest in nature-based solutions to these urban problems is growing, with urban forests potentially able to provide a range of regulating ecosystem services such as stormwater attenuation, heat amelioration and air purification…
Year Published: 2015
The rapid expansion of urban landscapes has significant consequences for wildlife. Habitat loss and fragmentation cause significant loss of species richness. While remnant fragments of…
Author(s): Jim, C.Y. | Lo, Alex Y.
Year Published: 2015
Mature urban trees dwelling on old masonry walls are a rare urban ecological and landscape treasure. These ‘stonewall’ trees denoting synergy between nature (trees) and culture (masonry) are worth preserving…
Year Published: 2013
Surveys of dying vegetation within remnant bushland, parks and gardens, and streetscapes throughout the urban forest of Perth and the South-west of Western Australia revealed symptoms typical of those produced by Phytophthora species…
Year Published: 2017
Choosing optimal and suitable trees and shrubs in urban areas can minimize the negative influences and increase the positive effects and the aesthetic acceptance by urban residents. Additional challenges in the selection of trees and shrubs are user requirements and growth conditions at urban sites…
Year Published: 2015
As an increasing proportion of the global human population resides in urban areas, urban forests are becoming both more important and more threatened. In many cities urban tree cover conflicts with strategies for urban intensification, and is being reduced due to inadequate protection…
Author(s): Blauch, Garrett A. | Jefferson, Anne J
Year Published: 2019
Large wood influences geomorphological, ecological, and biogeochemical functions of streams, but in urban areas it is also considered an unaesthetic hazard…
Year Published: 2021
Trees are critical assets in the urban environment. From reducing pollution and the effects of urban heat islands, decreasing energy consumption…
Year Published: 2020
Urban parks provide numerous cultural ecosystem services that are essential to the wellbeing of residents…
Author(s): Teixeira, Carla Fernanda Barbosa
Year Published: 2021
Trees and green spaces are part of the environmental systems that are essential to the quality of human life in urban spaces. In general, Brazilian cities have a high proportion of impermeable surfaces which affect the urban microclimate…
Author(s): Ballantyne, Mark | Pickering, Catherine Marina
Year Published: 2015
Recreational trails are one of the most common types of infrastructure used for nature-based activities such as hiking and mountain biking worldwide. Depending on their design, location, construction, maintenance and use, these trails differ in their environmental impacts…
Year Published: 2016
Urban forest managers must balance social, economic, and ecological goals through tree species selection and planting location…
Year Published: 2021
Urban air quality monitoring and control are becoming increasingly important as the amount of airborne pollutants is directly related to public health…
Year Published: 2017
Though relationships between urbanization and tree cover are generally well studied, the effect of redevelopment on urban trees, at the scale of the individual property, is not well understood…
