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  • Tool and Resource

    Woodland microclimates and archaeological preservation

    Woodland microclimates and implications for above-groung archaeology

  • Tool and Resource

    Conifer root and butt rot – Risk-based stump treatment

    Determining the risk and available options

  • Tool and Resource

    Selecting tree species for landfill restoration

    Which trees should you plant on an old landfill site?

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    Guide to using woodland for sediment control

    Lead Author: Tom Nisbet

    This guide describes the catchment approach that is being developed by a partnership of organisations in Cumbria in northwest England to control sediment inputs to Bassenthwaite Lake. It sets out the steps taken to identify the main sources of sediment and explores how woodland could help to alleviate the problem....

  • Tool and Resource

    Short rotation coppice and energy crops

    Archaeological issues relating to SRC establishment

  • Publication

    Terrestrial Umbrella: Eutrophication and acidification of terrestrial ecosystems

    Lead Author: Mark Broadmeadow

    The principal roles of Forest Research in this Defra programme were to provide expert advice and to deliver a range of site specific environmental, soil and vegetation-related parameters and data-sets required for the evaluation of the Critical Loads calculation methodology. This evaluation includes the testing and calibration of process-based dynamic...

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    [Archive] Report on Forest Research for the year ended March 1959

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission

    The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1959. The report includes: Introduction Summary of the year’s work Part i – Reports of work carried out by Forestry Commission research staff -Forest tree seed investigations -Nursery investigations -Silvicultural investigations in the forest: (a) south and central England and...

  • Publication

    [Archive] Report on Forest Research for the year ending March 1951

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission

    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...

  • Tool and Resource

    Tree roots

    Overview of potential interactions of tree roots with the archaeological resource

  • Publication

    Tree establishment on landfill sites

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission

    The results of 3 years commissioned research in the 1990s provide valuable information and advice on this important topic. Care in soil selection and placement, species choice, tree stock type, weed control, and protection against browsing animals is emphasised. Provided that there is a sufficient depth of overlying soil, woodland...

  • Research

    Fungi for Forest Restoration (Fungi4Restor)

    Project investigating the patterns and mechanisms of soil woodland fungal community recovery on former agricultural land.

  • Tool and Resource

    Practical considerations and challenges to greenspace

    Challenges to both the creation of greenspace and its protection during wider urban development