Beyond 'trees are good': Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry

LA Roman, TM Conway, TS Eisenman, AK Koeser… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The provision of ecosystem services is a prominent rationale for urban greening, and there
is a prevailing mantra that 'trees are good'. However, understanding how urban trees …

A review of research on tree risk assessment methods

H Li, X Zhang, Z Li, J Wen, X Tan - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
As an important part of the urban environment, trees have certain risks while living in
harmony with humans. For example, the failure of trees in extreme weather may cause …

Risk assessment and risk perception of trees: A review of literature relating to arboriculture and urban forestry

RW Klein, AK Koeser, RJ Hauer… - Arboriculture & Urban …, 2019 - auf.isa-arbor.com
In the presence of a target, tree failures have the potential to damage property, disrupt
services, or threaten public safety. Worldwide, several qualitative methods have been …

Traits of a bloom: a nationwide survey of US urban tree planting initiatives (TPIs)

TS Eisenman, T Flanders, RW Harper, RJ Hauer… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Municipal leaders worldwide are showing substantial interest in urban greening. This
encompasses incentives, policies, and programs to vegetate urban landscapes, and it often …

A global basis of urban tree inventories: What comes first the inventory or the program

B Ma, RJ Hauer, J Östberg, AK Koeser, H Wei… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
While efforts to standardize urban forest inventory data have occurred, the information
collected from community to community remains quite variable. In this study, we conducted a …

Alternative scenarios for urban tree surveys: Investigating the species, structures, and diversities of street trees using street view imagery

Y Hu, H Wang, H Yan, Q Han, X Nan, K Zhao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gras** information about street trees can assist urban environmental managers in
quantifying and evaluating their costs and ecological benefits. Street view imagery has the …

Best practices to use the iPad Pro LiDAR for some procedures of data acquisition in the urban forest

R Bobrowski, M Winczek, K Zięba-Kulawik… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
The search for means to improve urban forest inventories is challenging for small
communities and cities with a limited budget. Mobile applications on iPad or iPhone seem …

Development practices and ordinances predict inter-city variation in Florida urban tree canopy coverage

DR Hilbert, AK Koeser, LA Roman, K Hamilton… - Landscape and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

A spectral three-dimensional color space model of tree crown health

WB Monahan, CE Arnspiger, P Bhatt, Z An, FJ Krist… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Protecting the future of forests in the United States and other countries depends in part on
our ability to monitor and map forest health conditions in a timely fashion to facilitate …

The state and use of municipal tree inventories in Swedish municipalities–results from a national survey

J Östberg, B Wiström, TB Randrup - Urban Ecosystems, 2018 - Springer
Urban trees are an essential component of urban ecosystems, and management of this
resource constitutes an essential element of urban open space management. However …