Journal article
Standing volume yield, canopy structure and allometric relationships of dominant urban trees in Melbourne, Australia
L Orozco-Aguilar, SJ Livesley, C Brack, D Johnstone
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening | ELSEVIER GMBH | Published : 2019
Abstract
Most allometric equations currently used to quantify above-ground biomass of urban trees are derived from natural forest stands and can produce unreliable estimates of biomass for individual trees grown in open conditions. In addition, distribution of standing volume between stem, branch and foliage in solitary grown urban trees is poorly understood. In this study, a total of 45 trees of three species (Ulmus procera, n = 15, Corymbia maculta, n = 15 and, Platanus x acerofolia, n = 15) of different size (small, medium and large) were measured. For six trees of each species (18 in total), the stem and all major branches were fully mapped so that an accurate wood volume was established, and var..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the support facilitated by the Melbourne city council for providing financial aid, granting permission and getting access to data bases to select sampled trees. We wish to acknowledge the support of Australian arboriculturalists William Dunlop, William Maccabee and, Chis Wright for the valuable assistance and knowledge shared in the field. We would also like to thank the Frank Keenan Trust Fund and the Madeleine Selwyn Smith Memorial Fund Scholarship for the research funds granted.