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Author(s): Levett, Peter | Young, Peter
Year Published: 2013
This paper details water sensitive urban design (WSUD) in practice in the City of Salisbury including the TREENET inlet system…
Year Published: 2012
Many Council’s are now proactively managing their trees as assets, and are identifying those with special
relevance to the community…
Year Published: 2020
Worldwide, various tree species have been worshiped and praised because they are culturally significant in many nations. To address the questions of whether and how the preference for cultural trees influences the plant diversity in urban ecosystems characterized by human-created vegetation, we surveyed the plant composition in 239 designed landscape units (DLUs)…
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): 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): Murphy, Brett P | Radford, Ian J. | Westaway, John | Woinarski, John C.Z. | Woolley, Leigh-Ann
Year Published: 2018
Tree hollows are a vital wildlife feature, whose abundance and availability has declined in many regions due to broad-scale vegetation clearance, timber-harvesting, and disturbance such as fire…
Author(s): Watson, Scott
Year Published: 2007
In a crude sense, the VicRoads Roadside Management Strategy (VicRoads, undated) has four broad objectives. This may be over-simplifying, but VicRoads roadsides should be safe, ‘environmentally friendly’, attractive and affordable to maintain…
Year Published: 2020
Awareness of the benefits of urban trees has led many cities to develop ambitious targets to increase tree numbers and canopy cover. Policy instruments that guide the planning of cities recognize the need for new governance arrangements to implement this agenda…
Year Published: 2021
Spatially explicit information on urban tree species distribution is crucial for green infrastructure management in cities. This information is usually acquired with ground-based surveys, which are time-consuming and usually cover limited spatial extents…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2014
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…
Year Published: 2017
Koalas are iconic Australian tree-dwelling marsupials that are classified as vulnerable because of threatening processes that include urban development, habitat fragmentation and inbreeding. Koalas eat the leaves of specific eucalypt trees but urban planners and landowners often prefer to plant smaller trees that pose less risk from falling limbs…
Author(s): Morton, Andrew
Year Published: 2006
The planning for any new development requires consideration of many different constraints, but by and large the preservation of trees on development sites is rarely considered from the initial planning stages…
Author(s): McManus, Phil
Year Published: 2007
Imagine having to travel just to see trees – not because you want to, but because it is the only way that you can get to see real, live, growing trees. It sounds like an absurd idea you might think…
Author(s): Kenyon, Ben
Year Published: 2006
The Avenues of Honour Project has been under way for two years. During the 2004 Treenet Conference, a large undertaking commenced…
Author(s): Johnstone, Heather
Year Published: 2019
The delivery of the Urban Forest Strategy in collaboration with the Town of Victoria Park
(https://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/Home) directly involved a number or organisations…
Author(s): Kersten, W. | Schwarze, F.W.M.R.
Year Published: 2004
The effects of drilling holes with the IML‑Resistograph and an increment borer were examined in London plane and ash trees naturally infected with Inonotus hispidus. Eight months after inflicting the wounds on the lower stem, trees were felled and dissected…
Author(s): Summers, Jason
Year Published: 2007
Developing an inventory of trees for a whole city seems daunting; the reality is that it takes a lot of hard work. In this paper I plan to outline the processes and outcomes that have changed the way we manage trees in the City of Hume…
Year Published: 2019
Many cities around the world have set ambitious urban tree canopy cover goals, with the expectation that urban forests will provide ecosystem services as functional green infrastructure. Numerous studies have examined intra-city spatial patterns in urban tree canopy (UTC) and found that UTC relates to socioeconomic indicators and urban form…
Author(s): Titheradge, Samantha
Year Published: 2002
Claret Ash, Fraxinus oxycarpa Raywood is a popular ornamental tree widely planted in Canberra for its exquisite red autumn foliage…
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: 2019
Trees are invaluable and multifunctional elements of many land cover types. In urban areas trees serve particularly important ecological and environmental functions…
