Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines - Hardcover

Harris Professor Emeritus, Richard W.; Clark, James R.; Matheny, Nelda P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133866653 ISBN 13: 9780133866650

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

For Landscape Horticulture, Arboriculture, Urban Forestry, and Landscape Architecture courses at the undergraduate level. Regarded by many as an irreplaceable reference tool, this comprehensive, analytic, and logically organized guide describes current and new woody landscape plant selection and maintenance practices and evaluates them based on the most recent research and experience.

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From the Back Cover

A comprehensive guide to the care of trees, this book covers all aspects of arboriculture from the fundamentals of tree growth and development to developing plant health care programs. It discusses aspects of site selection and modification including climate, and soil and water management. The book follows the tree from selection in the nursery to planting and aftercare through such routine practices as pruning, fertilization, support systems, and plant health care. Key management situations such as tree preservation, hazard assessment, and problem diagnosis are discussed in detail.

The fourth edition offers several new features that the student of arboriculture and practicing arborists will find valuable:

• Reorganization of topics to improve continuity of information
• Addition of overviews and summaries for each chapter
• Updated assessment of tree care practices such as soil amendments, mycorrhizae, and tree growth regulators
• Thorough evaluation of the benefits from trees (economic, environmental, ecological, and psychological) including examples of the most recent research on cost-benefit analysis of trees in urban areas
• Emphasis on special management situations such as structural soils, root-pavement conflicts, and remnant forests

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133866653
• ISBN 13: 9780133866650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 687