2015 Archives - Treenet

Green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and human health

Contemporary ecological models of health prominently feature the natural environment as fundamental to the ecosystem services that support human life, health, and well-being. The natural environment encompasses and permeates all other spheres of influence on health. Reviews of the natural environment and health literature have tended, at times intentionally, to focus on a limited subset …

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Differences in the impacts of formal and informal recreational trails on urban forest loss and tree structure

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…

New urban developments that retain more remnant trees have greater bird diversity

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…

Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong

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…

Protecting trees at an individual level provides insufficient safeguard for urban forests

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…

Distribution and abundance of hollow-bearing trees in urban forest fragments

Habitat structures, such as hollow-bearing (i.e. cavity-bearing) trees, are globally recognised as important forest features for wildlife conservation and for providing important structural heterogeneity in natural and modified landscapes…

Personal encounters with trees: The lived significance of the private urban forest

Private trees are an important element in the social relations of urban landscapes, contributing intensely personal and highly textured experiences of memory, place and emotion…

2015 Complete Symposium Proceedings

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, there is great variability – north south, east, west, urban,
regional and rural, tropical and temperate…

Treenet 2015 – End of Day 1 Drinks

2015 Closing / TREENET Awards

A group of seven people from the community came together to help put together an amazing project which was delivered…