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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"arboriculture"”.
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Carbon Accounting in the Arboriculture Industry; Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Tree Surgery
… and energy production. Current practices in arboriculture rely heavily on fossil fuel based equipment to maintain trees in urban areas; removing carbon sinks (trees) and emitting CO2 during management practices. Therefore, it has been suggested that the arboriculture industry may make a …
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Small-scale and Amenity Focused Forestry: Filling a Market Niche
… backgrounds, including forestry, logging, arboriculture, landscaping, and woodworking. In addition, about 20 public-forest professionals were interviewed to determine how they and their programs are changing in response to emerging conditions. Successful service providers generally charge …
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Human-rainforest interactions in Island Southeast Asia: Holocene vegetation history in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) and Palawan (western Philippines)
… that are similar to those produced by modern arboriculture; a core from the southern Highlands contains fossil assemblages as old as 2000 cal BP that align with those from modern wet rice paddies. These ages coincide with the earliest archaeological dates from nearby sites. Earlier vegetation …
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Urban Forest Waste Generation and Utilization by Municipal and Private Arboricultural Operations in Virginia
… municipalities and 828 International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborists operating privately in Virginia were invited to participate in a web-based survey. Results indicate that nearly three quarters (74%) of all respondents reported that their local operation generates UFW. For private …
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Information on emergent insect associated tree diseases including epidemiological studies of drippy blight disease of oak and thousand cankers disease of walnut
… disease. Chapter I, published in the Journal of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, provides information on the basic biology of drippy blight disease. This article explains the signs and symptoms of drippy blight, and shows that the bacterium Lonsdalea quercina subsp. quercina is able to cause the …
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Feeding the Etruscans - An Archaeobotanical study of Etruscan Agriculture
… the process of diversifying and intensifying arboriculture and extricating people from farming during off-season. The latter allowed the pursuit of alternative ventures, such as exchange, crafts, and arts – which were core specialisations of the urban centres in Etruria where such occupational …
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Inventaire et productivité de Prunus virginiana L., Sambucus canadensis L., Viburnum Trilobum Marsh., Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. et Rubus chamaemorus L. dans la Péninsule acadienne avec une étude des populations de R. chamaemorus L
La Peninsule acadienne est une region ou l'industrie de la peche est l'artere principale de l'economie. La penurie qui sevit presentement dans ce secteur a contraint les gens a chercher de nouvelles ressources exploitables. L'exploitation des populations indigenes des especes fruitieres est l'un …
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Street Trees as a Source of Timber in Washington, DC
Recycling felled urban trees that are hazardous or unhealthy is increasingly viewed as a viable practice to control disposal costs, promote environmental practices, and support local commerce. Wide spread waste wood utilization is encumbered by numerous presumptions about wood quantity, quality, …
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Investigating the Impact of Urban Tree Planting Strategies for Shade and Residential Energy Conservation
Expanding urbanization, characterized by increased impervious surfaces and decreased tree canopy, is contributing to rising urban temperatures. This trend has implications for energy consumption, which strategically placed trees can modify by casting shade upon building and ground surfaces. …