Arboriculture

An arborist practicing arboriculture: examining a Japanese Hemlock at Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon.

An arborist practicing arboriculture: using a chainsaw to fell a eucalyptus tree in a park at Kallista, Victoria.

Arboriculture ( /ˈɑrbərɨkʌltʃər/) is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants. It is both a practice and a science.

The science of arboriculture studies how these plants grow and respond to cultural practices and to their environment. The practice of arboriculture includes cultural techniques such as selection, planting, training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning, shaping, and removal.

A person who practises or studies arboriculture can be termed an 'arborist', an 'arboriculturist' or a 'tree surgeon'.

Risk management, legal issues, and aesthetic considerations have come to play prominent roles in the practice of arboriculture.

Arboriculture is primarily focused on individual woody plants and trees maintained for permanent landscape and amenity purposes, usually in gardens, parks or other populated settings, by arborists, for the enjoyment, protection, and benefit of human beings. It is therefore related to, but distinct from agriculture, horticulture, urban forestry, forestry, dendrology, and silviculture.

See also

• Arborist
• Bonsai
• European Arboricultural Council
• Fruit tree pruning
• Horticulture
• Indigo Surveys
• International Society of Arboriculture
• Landscape architecture
• Landscaping
• Tree shaping
• Trophort
• Urban forestry
• Viticulture

References

• Harris, Richard W. (1983). Arboriculture: Care of Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in the Landscape. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0-13-043935-5. 
• "arboriculture". Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Merriam-Webster. 
• "arboriculture". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2007. 
• "arboriculture". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Online. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000. 

External links

• Arboricultural Association UK
• International Society of Arboriculture (USA)
• European Arboricultural Council
• BatsandTrees.com Promoting the importance of British trees to bats
• Institute of Chartered Foresters The UK based Chartered body for forestry and arboricultural professionals
• TreesAreGood.com (arboricultural resources for the general public)
• Tree information and facts, scientific aids for arborists
• Bartleby.com
• American Forests Urban forestry resources
• Bartlett Tree Expert Company Resource Documents Online resource library of arboricultural technical reports
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Merriam-Webster Online
• eTreeRemoval.com