Studying and characterizing the Arborization status of some street and ways for their development in Lattakia city

Sadif Donya(1)  and Zakaria Saytof(1)*

(1). Faculty of Agriculture- Tishreen University, Lattakia,  Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Zakaria Saytouf. E-Mail: saytofzakaria@gmail.com).

Accepted:14/04/2023          Received:4/05/2023  

Abstract: 

The research was conducted during the years 2019-2023 in different locations in latakia city with the aim to study the arborization statuses of some gardens located on the outer sides of the streets: Aleppo, Abdul Qadir Al-Husseini and Al-Thawra Street, to discover the defects in the arborization process determining the form of landscaping system of streets based on the description of arborization sites and morphological characteristics of arboreal species. The tree species spread in uneven proportions within the studied sections, which made the landscape of the gardens unbalanced in terms of the form of the distribution of arboreal individuals due to the frequent use of large numbers of ligstrom, bright fig, jacaranda, and azeracht in large proportions that exceeded the required limit. Abdel Qader Al-Husseini Street outperformed on the other streets in terms of the number of its tree components, followed by Aleppo Street, then Al-Thawra Street. The results showed that there is a defect in the current landscaping system, where uniform dimensions of afforestation were not adhered to at the edge of the road, in the absence of proportion-ality between the length of the street and the number of trees planted on both sides due to the presence of unforested sections that constituted 47.57% of the total length of the green line to the sides of the streets, which distorted the shape of the tree rows and reflected negatively on the general landscape of the streets. The study also pointed to many deviations from the natural growth form of the plant species, such as deformations of the stem, branches, and roots, and these conditions indicate an asymmetrical landscaping system.

Keywords: plant diversity- inventory- arboreal rows- forested sections -unforested  sections- street side gardens.

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