The importance of urban tree diversity

TY - GEN

T1 - The importance of urban tree diversity

AU - Frediani, Kevin L.

PY - 2014/6/16

Y1 - 2014/6/16

N2 - Overlooked and undervalued our urban tree population represents a living resource that is acutely vulnerable in a time of global change. A shared resource, improving the environmental quality of human habitat while positively contributing to health and well being. Derived from one of the narrowest cloned gene pools propagated by an even narrower supply chain. With poor robustness to survive outside of a high input resource use environments. This vulnerability is explored along with strategies to increase robustness. Integral to developing sustainable urban ecosystems fit for the future. This paper establishes the evidence base for improved tree selection and placement to grow a more resilient urban tree resource through; 1) Evaluating the structure and composition of our urban forests (age, size and species and clonal composition); 2) establishing how such information can aid the determination of likely impacts from various agents on the urban forest resource; model the limited diversity effect, establish a potential cost of lost ecosystem services and for their replacement; and 3) exploring strategies to increase urban tree diversity in order to provide better resilience in the Urban Forest.

AB - Overlooked and undervalued our urban tree population represents a living resource that is acutely vulnerable in a time of global change. A shared resource, improving the environmental quality of human habitat while positively contributing to health and well being. Derived from one of the narrowest cloned gene pools propagated by an even narrower supply chain. With poor robustness to survive outside of a high input resource use environments. This vulnerability is explored along with strategies to increase robustness. Integral to developing sustainable urban ecosystems fit for the future. This paper establishes the evidence base for improved tree selection and placement to grow a more resilient urban tree resource through; 1) Evaluating the structure and composition of our urban forests (age, size and species and clonal composition); 2) establishing how such information can aid the determination of likely impacts from various agents on the urban forest resource; model the limited diversity effect, establish a potential cost of lost ecosystem services and for their replacement; and 3) exploring strategies to increase urban tree diversity in order to provide better resilience in the Urban Forest.

KW - Tree diversity

KW - Urban Forestry

KW - Green infrastructure

KW - Trees

KW - Urban

KW - City planning

UR - https://res.slu.se/id/publ/67450

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-91-576-9234-4

VL - 1

SP - 53

EP - 53

BT - International conference on Urban Tree Diversity

A2 - Konijnendijk van den Bosch , Cecil

A2 - Östberg, Johan

PB - Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 58, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden

CY - Alnary

T2 - International conference on urban tree diversity

Y2 - 16 June 2014 through 18 June 2014

ER -