Archives

Wed 17 January 2024: Enhancing Tree Species Identification in Forestry and Urban Forests through Light Detection and Ranging Point Cloud Structural Features and Machine Learning
Tue 07 March 2023: Experimental Test of Non-Destructive Methods to Assess the Anchorage of Trees
Fri 19 August 2022: Accuracy and reproducibility of acoustic tomography significantly increase with precision of sensor position
Thu 03 March 2022: Using Artificial Intelligence to Assist Tree Risk Assessment
Thu 24 February 2022: Recent tree failures validate results of wind tipping curves
Sun 13 February 2022: Reproducibility of Stress Wave and Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Tree Assessment
Sat 22 January 2022: Static Pulling tests can be used for urban and forest trees
Mon 02 November 2020: Comparison of methods to measure sensor positions for tomography
Sun 01 November 2020: Validating wind load analyses for static pulling tests
Thu 24 September 2020: Root Rot Reduces Stability of Norway Spruce
Mon 24 August 2020: Barkstripping by deer reduces anchorage in Norway spruce
Wed 03 June 2020: Soil moisture as predictor of plant water status
Mon 03 June 2019: Stability Recovery in London Plane Trees Eight Years After Primary Anchorage Failure
Tue 09 January 2018: Correlation of wind speed and root plate tilt of trees in urban environment
Mon 27 February 2017: New book on urban forestry
Wed 07 September 2016: Does Cladoptosis indicate drought stress or ageing in oak?
Thu 07 January 2016: New book about Urban tree management
Tue 13 October 2015: Slenderness of branches is not a useful criterion for stability
Mon 24 August 2015: Correlation of wind speed and root plate tilt of trees in urban environment
Wed 03 June 2015: Are bumps an indicator of decay in London plane trees?
Wed 03 June 2015: Analysis of regional variation of height growth and slenderness in populations of six urban tree species using a quantile regression approach
Wed 03 June 2015: A field study on slenderness and tree failure

About

Steffen Rust is Professor of Arboriculture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Göttingen, Germany. His main fields of research are non-destructive methods for tree risk assessment and tree water relations. He is one of the developers of stress wave tomography for trees. Recent studies concentrate on ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography for stems and root systems, as well as static pulling tests, analysis of tree vibration, and the application of artificial intelligence in tree risk assessment.