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[[Image:ISA Certified Municipal Arborist, James Kinder.jpg|right|thumb|An [[arborist]] practicing arboriculture: examining a [[Tsuga sieboldii|Japanese Hemlock]] at [[Hoyt Arboretum]] in [[Portland, Oregon]].]]
[[Image:ISA Certified Municipal Arborist, James Kinder.jpg|right|thumb|An [[arborist]] practicing arboriculture: examining a [[Tsuga sieboldii|Japanese Hemlock]] at [[Hoyt Arboretum]] in [[Portland, Oregon]].]]
[[Image:Arborists-1,-Kallista,-VIC,-09.07.2008.jpg|right|thumb|An [[arborist]] practicing arboriculture: using a [[chainsaw]] to fell a [[eucalyptus]] tree in a park at [[Kallista,
[[Image:Arborists-1,-Kallista,-VIC,-09.07.2008.jpg|right|thumb|An [[arborist]] practicing arboriculture: using a [[chainsaw]] to fell a [[eucalyptus]] tree in a park at [[Kallista, Victoria]].]]
Victoria]].]]


'''Arboriculture''' ({{pron-en|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.
'''Arboriculture''' ({{pron-en|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.

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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 (Template:Pron-en), 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.

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

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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • "arboriculture". Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Merriam-Webster. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  • "arboriculture". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2007. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  • "arboriculture". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Online. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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