Potential hazard characteristics of trees with hollows, cavities and fruiting bodies growing along pedestrian routes.

ABSTRACT: This article is a study of risk assessment of trees with hollows, cavities and fruiting bodies for the improvement of the management and protection of urban trees growing along pedestrian routes. 317 trees were examined using TRAQ risk classes, VTA and ISA BMP methodology, Roloff's vitality classification, and sonic tomography (SoT) during the spring and summer of 2021. The collected data was analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis H-test, the Dunn multiple comparison test, the pairwise comparison of proportions with Holm correction, the U-Manna-Whitney test, and the Fisher exact test. The analysed trees grow alongside public footpaths and footways in central Zakopane, Poland. The study results indicate that tree trunk hollows are judged to have no adverse effects on a tree's vitality when asses

SUBMITTER: Suchocka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9741646 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature