Direct seeding can be a useful method for creating new woodland on former agricultural sites. However, the success of the technique is variable when it is used to restore conifer plantation sites to native species. Seed predation by small mammals, particularly the wood mouse, has been identified as a factor...
Practical considerations and challenges to how urban greenspace can help mitigate local climate change by helping to cool the urban climate
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The soil conditions experienced by a growing tree are reproduced under controlled conditions. Fluid distributions with the tree are visualised using magnetic resonance imaging in order to identify stresses and determine if these are linked to drought cracking and shake.
Standard, good forestry practice measures were proven to be effective in preventing contamination of stream waters in a detailed study of acetamiprid runoff following the use of Gazelle SG as a pre-treatment and top-up spray in forestry undertaken at Esgair Gors in mid-Wales. Despite progress in the development of non-chemical...
The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff. This eighteenth Journal includes...
The Environmental Change Network (ECN) was established in 1992 to provide a framework for monitoring the effects of a range of environmental drivers on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. The Alice Holt ECN site represents the Forestry Commission’s commitment to this long-term collaborative programme. This Research Note reviews data collected at...
Horse chestnut is an important amenity tree species which has been significantly affected over the past decade by a widespread outbreak of bleeding canker disease. Symptoms include rust-coloured or blackened bleeding cankers on the stem and branches, which can lead to tree mortality. The causal agent of this disease is...
Canker-inducing pathogens kill the inner, living bark of trees resulting in poorer growth or mortality of affected individuals which limits their contribution to climate change mitigation.
Guide to the biosecurity measures recommended or required when managing woodland, forests or wood affected by ramorum disease, caused by the Phytophthora ramorum (P. ramorum) pathogen in the United Kingdom
How tree species in urban greening schemes improve air quality and reduce air pollutionm with case study examples
Information on the development pressures, practical considerations, policy and issues of greenspace provision in urban areas