Trees for Climate Change
Planting trees is a long-term decision and yet is often done with little awareness of how trees actually survive and grow. Tree survival is clearly already being impacted by climate change. Henrik Sjöman teaches at a leading Swedish University (SLU, Alnarp) and holds a post at the renowned Gothenburg Botanic Gardens. There is no-one better to talk us through the issues facing tree specifiers, particularly for urban areas.
In four one-hour recorded presentations from the LI, which you can watch in your own time, Henrik covers a range of key topics:
Trees as providers of ecosystem services, natives and non-natives, tree survival strategies and how this relates to landscape use. Decision-making for specification.
Selection for challenging sites, sources of information, tree adaptations to limited water availability.
Ecosystem services: shelter from wind and sun, heat regulation, air quality improvement, shading effectiveness.
Smaller and multi-stem trees, planning with trees, multiple layer tree planting, roof gardens and urban canyons.
Time: 12:00 BST
