The Tree Health Diagnostic and Advisory Service provide advice and where possible diagnosis and identification of tree pests and pathogens. Range of services: Reporting tree pests and diseases If you are reporting a tree pest or disease, please use TreeAlert What is TreeAlert? TreeAlert is the online reporting tool for tree...
Aim Who is it for? How does it work? Getting started Moving along the pathway Video Explaining the Learning Pathway Step 1: “Get started with Nature“ Task Resources Details/Links Learn about nature, plants, animals and fungi BBC Springwatch Ideas, information and resources to help wildlife Field Studies Council Simple...
A suggested way for British woodlands to combat the problems they are facing due to climate change and exotic pests and diseases is to grow a range of novel exotic tree species. Here we examine the arguments for doing this in the context of British forestry where the objectives are...
The main objective of this catalogue is to bring some uniformity into exchanges concerning forest entomology. It consists of three lists: a basic one and two supplementary. The basic list includes all species in Pests and diseases of forest plantation trees (F G Brown, 1968) occurring in Britain, to which...
Early results of species and provenance trials established in 2012.
The expansion in forestry planting since the end of the first world war has provided foresters in Britain with a great deal of fresh knowledge about the particular insect problems associated with these new habitats in different phases of crop life. Most of the 280 species described here are common...
The Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network (WPHSN) is a ground-breaking Welsh Government funded project designed to proactively monitor native and invasive pests and pathogens that may pose a threat to health of plants and trees across Wales.
Overview This article, published in the Journal of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGjournal), outlines the work of the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network (WPHSN), a Welsh Government funded plant health initiative. Launched in 2022 by Forest Research (FR), the primary aim of the WPHSN is to monitor the presence and...
A list of all literature available (updated to December 2015) about Dothistroma in alphabetical order (G-L)
Partnership project in which the public contributes to tree health by helping to identify pest and diseases affecting trees
Alders play a vitally important role in Europe. Their diversity of characters not only enables them to establish as pioneers but in many cases also allows them to play a significant part in climax forests and make a major contribution to the ecology and stability of river banks. All four...
This Research Report provides a review of published results from provenance tests of relevance to English native trees to identify factors which may influence the risk, suitability and desirability of the use of local versus non-local seed under climate change.
