Sumários

Principles of Visual Tree assessment

30 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ana Paula Ferreira Ramos

Risk Analysis and Urban Trees
Principles of Visual Tree assessment.
Risk and Hazard. Components of risk assessment.

2nd part - Field Class @Tapada da Ajuda
Task 05 - Choice of trees; how to fill in the form of ISA's Basic tree risk assessment form.
Tools to visually assess trees - the use of tapes, hypsometers, rubber hammer and binoculars.
Dendrometric parameters, characteristics of the target and usage of the space.

Carbon storage and carbon sequestration

29 Abril 2024, 08:45 • Paula Soares

Urban forest and carbon sequestration

Forest system: 5 carbon pools

How to quantify the carbon in the different pools?

Forest - urban and peri-urban:

case study 1 - Sintra

case study 2 - Tapada Nacional de Mafra

case study 3 - Miyawaki forest

Statement of task 4

Training pruning of young trees

23 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ana Paula Ferreira Ramos

Field Class @Tapada da Ajuda
Tree care and maintenace. Governance and the urban forest.
Training pruning of young trees.
Basic equipment and tools. Individual protection equipment. Safety working conditions
Tutors adjustment and removal.
Control of invasive species.
With the participation of the Technician Responsible for the Green Spaces of the Campus, Vera Ferreira.



Tree pruning

22 Abril 2024, 08:45 • Ana Paula Ferreira Ramos

Tree pruning
When to prune? why to prune? Reasons for pruning trees.
Pruning cuts and implications. Pruning principles.
Problems caused by heading (topping) trees.
Structural and maintenance pruning.


Tree structure and development.

9 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ana Paula Ferreira Ramos

Tree structure and development
Growth, architecture and development of trees.
The CODIT model.