Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post-drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics

Understanding the impacts of extreme drought on forest productivity requires a comprehensive assessment of tree and forest resilience. However, current approaches to quantifying resilience limit our understanding of forest response dynamics, recovery trajectories and drought legacies by constraining the temporal scale and resolution of assessment. We compared individual tree growth histories with growth forecasted using […]

Comparison of the carbon, water, and energy balances of mature stand and clear-fell stages in a British Sitka spruce forest and the impact of the 2018 drought

Sitka spruce is the major conifer species in British upland forests and is predominantly managed as even-aged, single-species plantations with rotation lengths of less than 50 years using a “patch clear-felling” system. Evidence on the impact of clear-felling on the carbon, water and energy balances of plantation forestry is sparse and extreme weather events, such […]

The devil is in the detail: Metabarcoding of arthropods provides a sensitive measure of biodiversity response to forest stand composition compared with surrogate measures of biodiversity

We investigated whether biodiversity information obtained from DNA metabarcoding of mass-trapped arthropods and from a range of taxa-based surrogate measures of biodiversity (e.g. carabid beetles, vascular plants) provide: 1) similar estimates of alpha and beta diversity and 2) provide similar forest management related conclusions. We also explored how well habitat-based surrogate measures of biodiversity (e.g. stand structure, volume of deadwood) predict observed biodiversity patterns.

Outdoor Workshop 07.13

* These publications are produced by Technical Development. Some (mainly older) publications are not available online. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact jens.haufe@forestresearch.gov.uk or bill.jones@forestresearch.gov.uk or phone 0300 067 5919.

Safe fitting of bandtracks to harvesting machinery

Article published in Forest Machine Journal – March 2003 and Forestry & British Timber – April 2003

Logpole 2000, evaluation of purpose built harvester and clambunk extraction system

Summary (2000)

Initial investigation into a harvesting operation requiring helicopter extraction of timber

Summary (2003)

Outdoor Workshop 10.02a

* These publications are produced by Technical Development. Some (mainly older) publications are not available online. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact jens.haufe@forestresearch.gov.uk or bill.jones@forestresearch.gov.uk or phone 0300 067 5919.

Forest vegetation management in Europe: current practice and future requirements

Results from EU COST Action E47 to help forest managers reduce their dependence on using herbicides in Europe’s forests. Edited by Ian Willoughby (Forest Research), Philippe Balandier, Niclas Scott Bentsen, Nick McCarthy and Jenny Claridge (Forest Research). Related pages Integrated forest vegetation management

Weeding young trees – Avoiding trouble

By Ian Willoughby. Related pages Integrated forest vegetation management

The Savall single drum cableway

(PDF-162K) OutDoor Workshop 09.08

Tractor wire loader

(PDF-135K) OutDoor Workshop 09.05