Climate ready street tree trials: a best practice guide

Anthony Manea; Leigh Staas; Lyndal Plant; Alessandro Ossola; Linda Beaumont; Sally Power; Tim Johnson; Rachael Gallagher; Gwilym Griffiths; Michelle Leishman

doi:10.25949/v8n7-wt66

Climate ready street tree trials: a best practice guide

Anthony Manea^*, Leigh Staas, Lyndal Plant, Alessandro Ossola, Linda Beaumont, Sally Power, Tim Johnson, Rachael Gallagher, Gwilym Griffiths, Michelle Leishman

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Street trees are essential to provide ecosystem services to our cities as they improve human health and wellbeing, foster urban biodiversity and the environment. In order to deliver these benefits, street trees must be well suited to the local conditions. Currently, urban forests are experiencing unprecedented levels of warming and dramatic shifts in rainfall patterns due to climate change, which means tree species selections that have succeeded in the past may fail to do so in the future. Therefore, it is vital that climate-ready tree species are identified for urban greening applications to ensure the resilience and sustainability of urban forests in the future. This guide highlights key concepts and principles to run successful street tree trials.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	Macquarie University
Commissioning body	Hort Innovation
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.25949/v8n7-wt66
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

urban greening
trees
horticulture
experiment
engagement
cities
urban forest

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