Influence of soil properties on street tree attributes in Singapore

Ghosh, Subhadip; Scharenbroch, Bryant C.; Burcham, Daniel C.; Ow, Lai Fern; Shenbagavalli, S.; Mahimairaja, S.

doi:10.1007/s11252-016-0530-8

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“…The contents of these heavy metals and their coefficients of variation (7.3% and 51.5% respectively) can be regarded as low. The results of our study are in line with other authors’ findings [24,59,60].…”

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“…The average potassium content measured in the soils in our study (average density of mineral soils 1.5 kg dm -3 ) amounted to 112.28 mg dm -3 (lime-trees) and 86.35 mg dm -3 (horse chestnut trees). The potassium content measured in urban soils in Singapore was 27–130 mg kg -1 [59]. There were similar amounts of potassium measured in urban soils in Baltimore, (USA) (12–280 mg kg -1 ) and Chicago (USA) (140–199 mg kg -1 ) [60,64].…”

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How does the content of nutrients in soil affect the health status of trees in city parks?

Kleiber¹,

Krzyżaniak²,

Świerk³

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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Trees have multi-aspect influence on the microclimate in urbanised areas. Therefore, it is important to investigate the biotic and abiotic factors affecting their health. The aim of the conducted study was to assess the chemical composition of soils and the nutritional status of lime and horse chestnut trees in selected sites and the influence of these factors on the condition and health of these tree species in urbanised areas. The research was conducted on selected trees (n = 643) growing in different parts of the city. The soils and plants were analysed for the content of macro- and microelements, sodium and heavy metals. A canonical variation analysis (CVA)–the canonical variant of Fisher's linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was used to construct the model. The CVA enabled the creation of 4 CCA models. The research showed that in general, the soil in all the sites of lime and horse chestnut trees was alkalised–at the same time it was characterised by low salinity. Despite the alkaline soil the statistical analysis showed a positive correlation between the content of manganese in the lime leaves and the deterioration of their health. In spite of that due to the satisfactory health status and condition of trees in most locations temporary guide values of nutrients were proposed for trees growing in urbanised areas. The following temporary guide values of nutrients were proposed for the horse chestnut trees (% d. m.): N 2.38%-4.71%, P 0.24%-0.46%, K 1.13%-2.31%, Ca 1.05%-2.12%, Mg 0.16%-0.42%, S 0.12%-0.23%; Fe 89.8–198.8, Zn 17.6–33.1, Cu 7.36–19.61 (mg kg-1 d. m.). The following temporary guide values were proposed for the small-leaved lime-trees (% d. m.): N 2.45%-3.22%, P 0.27%-0.42%, K 1.52%-2.86%, Ca 1.43%-2.02%, Mg 0.19%-0.35%, S 0.19%-0.25%; Fe 137.6–174.3, Zn 20.2–23.8, Cu 8.36–9.79 (mg kg-1 d. m.).

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How does the content of nutrients in soil affect the health status of trees in city parks?

Kleiber¹,

Krzyżaniak²,

Świerk³

et al. 2019

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“…Street trees face an extremely hostile environment in the city and may struggle to survive and grow (Ow and Ghosh, 2017;Ghosh et al, 2016). Most of the time, trees have long been fit into spaces left over after everything else is written into the design.…”

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Sustainable Urban Streetscape: Managing trees as green infrastructure

Zairuddin

Othman

Malek

2020

AjBeS

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Green and grey infrastructure plays a significant role in exposing the quality to the urban streetscape. The establishment and post-execution of streetscape planting management practice become a marking factor in measuring the sustainability of roadside tree planting. Due to the acceleration of the urbanization, conflicts in growing healthy roadside tree planting keep arising. Hence, this study is to deliver a discussion of non-numerical data on the potential attributes and approaches that can be adopted and adapted in Malaysia for a better quality of streetscape tree planting practices. Keywords: Streetscape Design; Roadside Tree Planting; Tree Sensitive Urban Design Theory eISSN 2398-4295 ©2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers (AMER); Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians / Africans / Arabians (ABRA); Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v5i19.193

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“…Moreover, soils in different sites are diverse, and the resource-based hypothesis is supported by increasing empirical evidence that such diversity shapes plant performance (Miller et al 2006;Wagg et al 2014). For instance, the growth and distribution of urban trees in Hong Kong and Singapore were shown to be significantly related to soil depth, structure, porosity and nutrients (Jim 1998;Ghosh et al 2016).…”

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Influence of soil properties on the performance of theTaxodiumhybrid ‘Zhongshanshan 407’ in a short-term pot experiment

Shi

Yin

Wang

et al. 2017

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

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A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of soil properties on the plant growth, nutrient uptake and photosynthetic characteristics of the Taxodium hybrid 'Zhongshanshan 407ʹ (T. 407). Soils were collected from four different sites across China. These soils showed heterogeneity in pH, nutrients, aggregate distribution and other parameters. The results indicate that the soil of Jiangxi is poorest in terms of soil fertility. T. 407 plants in soils from Tianjin had greater leaf and total biomass, a higher photosynthetic rate (P n ) and more nutrients. Plant total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and total potassium (TK) were positively correlated with soil TN, available phosphorus (AP) and available potassium (AK) (P < 0.01) in all four soils. Path analysis revealed that soil TN and AK were the two major factors affecting P n . In summary, T. 407 plants exhibited soil-specific characteristics, preferring soils of slightly alkaline pH that were rich in N, P, K and small macroaggregates. This finding is of great relevance for silviculture practices.

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Influence of soil properties on street tree attributes in Singapore

Cited by 31 publications

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How does the content of nutrients in soil affect the health status of trees in city parks?

How does the content of nutrients in soil affect the health status of trees in city parks?

Sustainable Urban Streetscape: Managing trees as green infrastructure

Influence of soil properties on the performance of theTaxodiumhybrid ‘Zhongshanshan 407’ in a short-term pot experiment

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