Forestry and Tree Health Resources
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The UK Forestry Standard is the reference standard for sustainable forest management in the UK.
Research into the sustainability of 12 urban forests across Great Britain, and recommendation of a framework to rate sustainability of urban trees.
Service overview Our laboratory offers a high quality water analysis service for the private sector and research organisations. We carry our regular water analysis for research projects and have acquired the latest state-of-the-art dual view spectrophotometer giving extremely low limits of detection and greater accuracy at trace levels which is...
Conduct studies in a known context, with access to the forest and 50 years' historic scientific data
Practical considerations of biosecurity and how planting exotic species and increasing movement of seeds can increase the risk of importing and disseminating new pest species (insects and pathogens).
Carbon valuation, discounting and risk management are important in ensuring that effective incentives are put in place to tackle climate change, and in comparing the relative merits of climate mitigation activities over time. Approaches applied in different contexts, including in relation to permanence issues, are reviewed in order to help...
Summary of Programme The programme will pursue innovative approaches to forest inventories, data acquisition, high-quality forestry statistics and forest modelling in support of forest policy and practice. New methods will be developed and integrated to inform choices on forest capital. Sustainable forest management is only possible with the appropriate data...
Site selection for brash removal in upland conifer forests, with a focus on Sitka spruce stands
A study of historic and current urban tree canopy cover in Great Britain using aerial imagery.
Explore results from five additional REINFFORCE experiments assessing tree species for UK forestry in a changing climate, now available in our interactive data explorer.
Climate change will affect our forests, influencing tree growth rates and timber quality.
Summary of the use of urban greenspace to reduce erosion control and surface runoff due to stabilisation by tree roots and grasses
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