Community woodland groups are growing, and there are now over 650 groups in England, Scotland and Wales. The rise is the result of both social pressure and changes in policy. Groups are keen to learn from each other’s experiences, and policy stakeholders seek evidence of the effectiveness of past and current policy. While some experiences […]
The Land Use and Ecosystem Services Research Group provides services to the forestry and environment sectors in the following areas:
Evidence & knowledge
These services are focussed on generating ecological, environmental, and social evidence and knowledge. We do experimental work, talk to people, and derive new evidence from existing data. For example, our work on WrEN and Peatland ecosystem […]
The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1951. The report includes:
Introduction
Summary of the year’s work
Part 1: Work carried out by the Forestry Commission staff:
– Forest tree seed investigations
– Experimental work in nurseries
– Natural regeneration of scots pine woods in the highlands
– Position of planting on ploughed heathland
– Provenance studies
– Work on afforestation […]
Information on the ecological benefits of grasslands in the urban and peri-urban greenspace environment, including benefits and practical considerations
Stand structure is an important determinant of habitat quality for forest biodiversity and is influenced by management. In conifer plantations, the varied structure created within a stand by continuous cover forestry (CCF) systems has been expected to be better for woodland birds than the range of discrete stand structures created through rotations of clearfelling and […]
Study finds twinflower in Scotland exhibits genetic effects of chronic population fragmentation
Habitat fragmentation is widely thought to contribute to the decline of plant species. In part, this is due to the restriction it places on the flow of genes (which occurs through pollen and seed dispersal) within a plant population, creating sub-populations within which localised […]
The two-spotted oak buprestid (TSOB) is a UK and European native, bark-boring beetle which lives on oak trees (trees in the Quercus genus), and which, in sufficient numbers, can severely weaken them.
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