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    Forestry and Climate Change pack

    This pack represents the key Forestry Commission messages on forestry and climate change. It explains in one document the role of trees, woods and forests in tackling and adapting to climate change.

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    Forestry and climate change mitigation

    Research to improve our understanding of how forests and woodlands can contribute to the carbon balance at both local and global scales

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    Forest disturbances under climate change

    Lead Author: Rupert Seidl

    Disturbances such as droughts, wind and insects attacks all result in stress for forests and they are influenced by changing climate. Forests cover about a third of worldwide land surface, but knowledge is still lacking about how these types of disruptions interact with one another given global climate change. Now,...

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    Factsheet: Climate change, flooding and forests

    Lead Author: Tom Nisbet

    Many parts of the UK are periodically affected by flooding and the frequency of floods is expected to increase due to climate change. Tree planting and forest management can alter flood flows, although the extent of this depends on many factors. Here we describe the latest understanding of how forestry...

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    Impacts of climate change on forests in Scotland

    Lead Author: Duncan Ray

    Report compiled for Forestry Commission Scotland by Duncan Ray with sections also drafted by Dave Wainhouse, Joan Webber and Barry Gardiner.

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    Factsheet: Climate change and forest carbon

    How much carbon is there in our woodlands? Forests are a key part of the global carbon cycle. As trees grow, carbon is removed from the atmosphere, so there is much interest in tree planting and woodland expansion to help slow down the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases that is...

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    Factsheet: Climate change and urban forests

    Lead Author: Kieron Doick

    Urban forests can both help reduce climate change and help urban society cope with its impacts.

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    Factsheet: Peatlands, forestry and climate change

    Lead Author: Russell Anderson

    This factsheet explains how forestry affects the carbon stored in peat and the role forest-to-bog restoration can play in reducing carbon emissions.

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    Impacts of climate change on forestry in Wales

    Lead Author: Duncan Ray

    Climate change is now one of the greatest global challenges, and research is under way to establish the likely impacts on many aspects of the environment. Forestry Commission Wales has commissioned Forest Research to determine how forests and forestry in Wales will be affected by climate change. […]

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    [Archive] Climate change: impacts on UK forests

    Lead Author: Mark Broadmeadow (Ed.)

    It is now widely accepted that mankind’s activities are having a discernible effect on the global climate, and these changes will impact upon the functioning of many of the planet’s natural systems. Climate change will have a variety of direct and indirect effects on forests and, thus, will have implications...

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    Adapting forest and woodland management to the changing climate

    Lead Author: Gail Atkinson

    Our climate is changing rapidly, with milder, wetter winters, warmer summers, longer growing seasons and more frequent extreme conditions, including drought periods and heavy rainfall events. The projected rate of climate change is unprecedented and therefore action is essential now to improve the resilience of forests and woodlands, and to...

  • Research

    Adapting Scotland’s forests for resilience to climate change

    Hosting video clips to show how climate change might affect Scotland's forests.