The Research Foundation to Tree Pruning: A Review of the Literature

Two hundred one research publications including 152 journal articles were compiled. Forty-four journals were represented with the Journal of Arboriculture, Arboricultural & Urban Forestry, and Arboricultural Journal as the most frequently cited. Compartmentalization, wounding, wound response, decay development, and wound treatment were the most frequently noted topic areas. The bibliography was organized in Zotero, an application using the Firefox web browser. Keywords were identified for each publication. Where either the article or its abstract was available, an annotation was created. This paper describes the major topic areas identified in the review and discusses the future directions for pruning research.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Arboriculture & urban forestry

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.48044/jauf.2010.015
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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