Abstract
In recent years, the issue of urban environmental conservation has received great attention. In addition to the extensive planting of trees in urban construction, old tree management is also under its management in Taiwan. As Taiwan is located in a subtropical climate area, the pest and disease problems are very complicated. Pests and diseases often cause serious problems such as poor growth of trees, poor photosynthesis and structural damage, or even death. Coupled with the fact that Taiwan is in a typhoon-prone area, the fall of poorly-grown or structural-damage urban trees has became the time bombs in cities, posing a threat to ecology, society and the economy. In view of this, the project plans to investigate and explore the biological factors related to urban forest and establish the standard operational procedures of pest management and risk assessment for urban forest. Secondly, the urban tree risk will be graded in order to understand the urban tree risk management strategy. In addition, this project will conduct environmental education advocacy courses, enlightening tree knowledge and actions from childhood. At the same time, the institute will integrate and standardize the Arboricultural Medicine related researching techniques. Combine industry, government and academic domain together to establish Arboricultural Medicine Center (AMC) to assess the demand for related resources and promote institutionalization of the system. In the meantime, integrating tree health examination technology and providing urban forest health inspection platform. Integrating large data in Taiwan as a pool to provide diagnosis basis thus improve the efficiency of prevention and control. On the other hand, this project will study the health management of defending old trees, carry out the research and development and introduction of the technology, provide the management authorities with the reference norms and improve the living quality of the old trees. Finally, this project will explore to what extent will the physical and chemical properties of the hardened soil will affect the growth, health status, and structure of the urban forest. Results will provide the authorities as an important reference to improve the health management for urban forestry.