Eurasian honeysuckle species such as Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Herder and Lonicera tatarica L. have a long history as valued and widely planted components of both urban and rural landscapes, prized for their sweetly scented flowers, persistent
Environmental Science class (NRES 345, Range and Forest Plants). In exchange for their efforts, EMGs are given year-round use of a 25 × 25-ft bay within the teaching greenhouse facility on campus. EMGs have an opportunity to interact directly with university
plants such as redbay and swampbay ( Persea palustris ) and through the urban landscape via dooryard avocado trees ( Crane et al., 2008 ; Koch and Smith, 2008 ). However, it could arrive much sooner if introduced inadvertently in contaminated host wood
fertility and is also adapted to stresses such as drought, flooding, and salinity ( Diagne et al., 2013 ). Its ability to fix nitrogen through symbiosis with actinobacteria ( Frankia ) makes it a potentially sustainable shrub for urban landscapes because
for street trees, park trees and urban woodland, p. 257–280. In: C.C. Konijnendijk, K. Nilsson, T.B. Randrup, and J. Schipperijn (eds.). Urban forests and trees. Springer, Berlin, Germany Seemann, J.R. Critchley, C. 1985 Effects of salt stress on the
real impact of a nutrient or sediment source on its tributary. The majority of the land area in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is forested area (64%), whereas agriculture accounts for 24% of the area and 8% is considered urban ( Fig. 2 ). It is not clear
More than 80% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas ( U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 ). Residential and commercial districts may cover 20% and 85% of the land with impervious surfaces, respectively ( Dietz and Clausen, 2005 ). Increasing the area
force in the study of xylem cavitation J. Expt. Bot. 48 665 674 Buckstrup, M. Bassuk, N. 2009 Creating the urban forest: The bare root method. Cornell Univ. Urban Hort. Inst., Ithaca, NY Comas, L. Bouma, T. Eissenstat, D. 2002 Linking root traits to
to produce plants for use in urban managed forests, conservation plantings, or reintroduction into natural areas for species recovery efforts. For these reasons, developing horticultural skills based on experimental results can provide opportunities
New Zealand, but only two do agricultural research: Lincoln University, near Christchurch, and Massey University in Palmerston North. There are nine CRIs: AgResearch, Crop and Food Research, Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), Forest