air quality (tree management)

Tree management for air quality includes maintaining or increasing the number of trees, especially those that are large (with large total leaf surface areas), long-lived, resistant to pollution, have low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and low maintenance requirements. The trees should be capable of active growth.

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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