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Blaz Klobucar
Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53, Alnarp, Box 66, Sweden

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Journal article
Published: 02 April 2021 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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Trees and large shrubs in urban environments provide a wide array of ecosystem services, enhancing the well-being of urban residents. Public trees in Sweden are managed by local governments, but private-owned urban trees, which represent a large proportion of the total urban tree population, are managed by residential property owners. Residential urban trees are generally not included in urban forest management plans at local government level. This study examined property-level characteristics that could lead to better management decisions by property owners on residential trees in Malmö, Sweden. Using spatial sampling, 99 properties were inventoried to determine tree basal area (m2/ha), as a measure of woody plant abundance. In parallel, residents were surveyed about their attitudes to trees, and information on background variables on their properties was collected using through publicly available spatial data. Statistical modelling was used to determine relationships between key socio-ecological variables and tree abundance as well as reasons for planting and removal of trees. The results showed that positively perceived benefits of trees to property owners did not necessarily result in greater tree and shrub abundance on individual properties. Instead, house age and potential plantable space were the variables positively correlated with tree and shrub abundance. Years of residence had a negative correlation with probability of planting. The primary reason for tree removal was improper growing site, which indicates that providing practical information on appropriate site/species selection could reduce the risk of healthy urban tree removal.

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Blaz Klobucar; Johan Östberg; Björn Wiström; Märit Jansson. Residential urban trees – socio-ecological factors affecting tree and shrub abundance in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 2021, 62, 127118 .

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Blaz Klobucar, Johan Östberg, Björn Wiström, Märit Jansson. Residential urban trees – socio-ecological factors affecting tree and shrub abundance in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2021; 62 ():127118.

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Blaz Klobucar; Johan Östberg; Björn Wiström; Märit Jansson. 2021. "Residential urban trees – socio-ecological factors affecting tree and shrub abundance in the city of Malmö, Sweden." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 62, no. : 127118.

Review
Published: 11 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Urban trees provide important ecosystem services, across ownership and governance structures, and tree inventories are an important tool enabling urban foresters and green space managers to monitor and perform the sustainable management of urban trees. For optimal management of urban trees, a better understanding is needed concerning how urban tree inventories can provide long-term monitoring overviews across administrative borders, and how inventory protocols should be adapted to address specific practitioner issues. In this review, 98 articles on urban tree inventories were examined, the primary focus being sampling design. A governance arrangement approach was applied to identify the policy-making arrangements behind the inventories. Stratification is commonly used in the sampling design, despite being problematic for long-term representativeness. Only 10% of the stratification sampling designs identified were considered as having long-term validity. The studies frequently relied on an individual sampling design aimed at a particular issue, as opposed to using an existing longitudinal sampling network. Although private trees can constitute over 50% of the urban tree population, 41% of the studies reviewed did not include private trees at all. Urban tree inventories focused primarily on tree data on a local scale. Users or private tree owners are commonly not included in these studies, and limited attention is paid to economic, cultural or social factors. A long-term validation of sampling methods in urban areas, and a multi-lateral approach to tree inventories, are needed to maintain long-term operational value for local managers in securing ecosystem service provisions for entire urban forests.

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Blaz Klobucar; Johan Östberg; Märit Jansson; Thomas Randrup. Long-Term Validation and Governance Role in Contemporary Urban Tree Monitoring: A Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5589 .

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Blaz Klobucar, Johan Östberg, Märit Jansson, Thomas Randrup. Long-Term Validation and Governance Role in Contemporary Urban Tree Monitoring: A Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5589.

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Blaz Klobucar; Johan Östberg; Märit Jansson; Thomas Randrup. 2020. "Long-Term Validation and Governance Role in Contemporary Urban Tree Monitoring: A Review." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5589.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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Björn Wiström; Anders Busse Nielsen; Blaž Klobučar; Urška Klepec. Zoned selective coppice – A management system for graded forest edges. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 2015, 14, 156 -162.

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Björn Wiström, Anders Busse Nielsen, Blaž Klobučar, Urška Klepec. Zoned selective coppice – A management system for graded forest edges. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 2015; 14 (1):156-162.

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Björn Wiström; Anders Busse Nielsen; Blaž Klobučar; Urška Klepec. 2015. "Zoned selective coppice – A management system for graded forest edges." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 14, no. 1: 156-162.