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This project aims to establish a coherent network of Research Forests in England, to provide a permanent testing-ground for a strategic series of planned experiments and demonstrations. This will generate essential data to inform silvicultural practices and to advise on the sourcing of planting material.
Secondly, this project aims to establish a series of new species/spacing trials to provide essential data for future development of the yield and carbon models.
To find out more about one of the work packages exploring Genetic Conservation Units, please see here.
This project is part of the Nature for Climate Fund.
Whittet et al. (2022) categorised five essential classes of experiment as a framework in which to consider the critical questions currently faced by many forest managers and policy-makers.
Our longer-term strategy which extends beyond the lifetime of this project plans to adopt a staged approach to achieving rapid delivery of these types of experiment as part of a highly-ambitious but essential research programme.
The high-priority research questions facing forest / woodland managers and policymakers and the types of trials needed to generate the data needed to address them were assessed by Whittet et al. (2022) as:
The project has been progressing well to date.
This project aims to establish a network of genetic conservation units (GCUs) across the natural range of European tree species to conserve the genetic diversity of forest genetic resources (FGR).
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