Climate change triggered forest die-back is a huge concern worldwide. Arboretums and common gardens comparing geographic origins within species can provide a large body of valuable information and material usable to increase forest resilience. Common gardens have been foundational in demonstrating...

Urbanization is causing fragmentation of natural areas and impacting urban wildlife populations. Sustainability of wildlife and their habitat in arboriculture has focused on three key areas: retaining wildlife snags and beneficial-tree features (e.g., hollows/cavities), education of arborists and...

Collections of living trees (hereafter arboreta) are important for conservation, research on species selection for forestry, and as sentinel sites for monitoring pests and diseases. Arboreta can also be the source of propagules for biological invasions. Between 2012 and 2022 a survey was undertaken ...

The Ecological Restoration Alliance (ERA) mission is to mobilize botanic gardens, arboreta and seed banks to carry out science-based ecological restoration by marshalling their expertise, networks, and resources to help achieve the restoration outcomes needed for human well-being and a sustainable...

This article talks about the arboretum of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew in the United Kingdom. The history of the arboretum is given detail, marked in milestones in terms of new species introductions and collections, as well as the growth and progress of the newly added species.

This article explains why a world-class collection of trees in the R.A. Bartlett Research Laboratories and Arboretum in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA needs state-of-the-art irrigation. This is due to the fact that during the first thirty years, it was apparent that some of the plants were...

This article talks about the Morton Arboretum in Illinois, USA, and their establishment of ArbNet, a global network for arboreta. ArbNet offers an arboretum accreditation program that recognizes standards of professional practice at four different levels of institutional capacity, encouraging the...

Among the various contemporary environmental issues, the lack of recognition of the importance of Botany in our daily lives, the absence of awareness and interaction with nature are topics that society needs to discuss. To develop and offer perspectives to Environmental Education (EA), this study...

Forest health is the fundamental of sustainable forest management. As such, forest health needs to be continually monitored and maintained. This study assessed the state and change of forest health of the prospective arboretum in Wan Abdul Rachman Grand Forest Park (Tahura WAR), Lampung, Indonesia, ...

Auricularia (Auriculariaceae, Basidiomycota) is well-known jelly fungi, and most species are cultivated or utilized medicinally around the world. A total of 127 Auricularia specimens were collected during Korean mushroom forays by the Korea National Arboretum from 2008 to 2020. In this...