Urban Tree Diversity Conference Programme.pdf

Organizers & Publication Details:
- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Editors: Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch and Johan Östberg
- ISBN: 978-91-576-9235-1

Conference Structure & Key Topics:
1. Welcome & Organizers (Pages 10-14)
2. Campus Map (Page 22)
3. Programme (Pages 23-48)

Keynote Speakers:
- Dr. Leong Chee Chiew: "Singapore, a green and biodiversity-rich city state, against the odds"
- Prof. Dr. Nina Bassuk & Prof. Dr. Jason Grabosky: "Urban sites are made for plant diversity"
- Prof. Dr. Ingo Kowarik: "Aliens in the city!? Considering context dependence helps calming down the heated alien-native debate"
- Dr. Nina-Marie Lister: "Landscape as infrastructure: Towards an Ecological Urbanism"
- Matthew Wells: "London, New York & Los Angeles: The challenges of urban tree diversity"

Sessions & Presentations:
- Session 1: Selection of urban trees
- Bert Cregg: "Urban tree selection in a changing climate"
- April Jackson: "Examination of Sugar Maple provenance responses to increasing temperature and drought"
- Per Anker Pedersen: "Testing of ornamental trees in harsh winter conditions at Ås, Norway"
- Jelle A. Hiemstra: "Evaluation of street tree varieties in the Netherlands"
- Glynn Percival: "Identifying physiological characteristics associated with stress tolerance in ornamental trees"

- Session 2: Urban tree diversity in design and establishment
- Sara Barron & Stephen Sheppard: "The role of trees in enriching dense suburban environments"
- Johanna Deak Sjöman: "Regulating ecosystem services and sustainable planning"

- Session 3: Exotic and native urban tree species, invasiveness etc.
- Mark J. Ambrose et al.: "Modelling urban distributions of key host trees for invasive forest pests"
- Hans Martin Hanslin & Arne Sæbø: "Seed vitality of exotic species in their northern introduced range"
- W. Azuma et al.: "Does adjacent late-successional forest prevent plagiosere?"

- Session 4: Assessing diverse urban tree populations
- Topi Tanhuanpää: "Defining canopy metrics of urban trees with high density ALS data"
- Eldar Kurbanov & Oleg Vorobiev: "Change analyses of urban forests in Mari El republic, Russia"
- Mark J. Ambrose: "Analysis of urban and natural forest composition across North America"
- Raffaele Lafortezza: "Urban forestry plantations assessment in a global change perspective"
- Paolo Semenzato et al.: "Assessing and comparing composition and diversity in urban trees populations in Northern Italy"
- Anders Busse Nielsen et al.: "Spatial configurations of urban forest in Denmark and Sweden