A study of the São Paulo city center in Brazil proposed guidelines and specified stakeholder roles for reducing the number of tree failures, which average 2,000 per year there In São Paulo, Brazil’s ...

The role of vegetation in enhancing soil stability and mediating root mechanics has garnered substantial attention in recent years. Plants contribute to slope stability by reinforcing the soil through ...

There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...

Purdue Landscape Report: April showers bring May Flowers. Many of us were taught this little rhyme to describe the weather of Spring. April has arrived along with the beginning of the Spring storm ...

Aim Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been used for estimating root biomass, estimating pullout resistance force of roots, and reconstructing root system architecture. Although GPR can estimate the ...

Certain tree species have root systems so extensive and water-hungry that they can cause serious structural damage to ...

Parking on tree roots also inflicts some lessobvious wounds. Fine roots and root hairs on the periphery of the tree’s root ...