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    The first 50 years of Tree Breeding in Britain – Nomenclature and locations

     There have been a number of changes of nomenclature and location during the 50 years of tree improvement within the Forestry Commission and Forest Research: Bush Nursery, Roslin 1956-96 Newton Nursery, Elgin 1963-96 Fort Augustus 1971-77 Grizedale, Lake District 1951-71 Westonbirt Arboretum, Glos. 1965-88 Shobdon, Herefordshire 1985-96 Research branch name The Genetics Section of the Forestry Commission Research Division was established...
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    A review of the effects of forest management intensity on ecosystem services for northern European temperate forests with a focus on the UK
    Lead Author: Louise Sing
    Abstract Ecosystem services (ES) are the benefits that people receive from ecosystems. Understanding the impact of forest management on their supply can inform policy and practice for meeting societal demand. The objectives of this paper are to identify and review the effect of management intensity on priority ES supply and identify synergies and trade-offs among ES […]
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    Urban Forests in a European Perspective: what can the National Forest Inventory tell us?
    Lead Author: Natalie Marie Gulsrud
    This pilot project demonstrates that the NFI data, in combination with the DEGURBA approach, provides existing data on European urban forests. Now that we know what we have, there is potential to quantify and qualify the state and trends of European urban forests. Moving forward we can draw on existing policies and concepts such as […]
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    The origins of shake and drought crack in trees

     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.
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    The use of Ecoplugs for woody weed control

     Ecoplugs containing glyphosate can be an effective means of killing standing trees, and preventing regrowth from cut rhododendron stumps.
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    Valuation of Welsh Forest Resources

     This study estimates using a natural capital accounting approach the value of five ecosystem goods and services provided by woodlands in Wales: standing timber, timber extraction, carbon sequestration, recreation and air quality improvement.
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    Economics of risk and tipping points: approaches to valuing forest resilience

     A review of economic approaches to risk and uncertainty, tipping points and resilience in forestry. A conceptual framework for the resilience valuation and its interaction with risk is proposed
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    Developing multi-stand / CCF version of optimal rotation length prototype model

     Explores optimal management in a multi-stand / Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) setting and various ecosystem services and benefits provided by complex forests.
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    Control of Gaultheria shallon

     Gaultheria shallon can be effectively controlled by the herbicides picloram, triclopyr or glyphosate if they are applied at the correct time of year.
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    Neurostresspep

     Neurostresspep explores the use of insect neuropeptide hormones for controlling pest insects; Forest Research is investigating whether these naturally occurring compounds can be used in forest management to reduce damage by pine weevil (Hylobius abietis).
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    Assessing public and stakeholder attitudes to pine martens

     Forest Research is undertaking attitudinal research with stakeholders and the public to understand levels of awareness about pine marten ecology, and perspectives around a potential re-introduction.
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    Forestry publication document

    Forestry Facts & Figure 2017
    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This booklet contains a summary of statistics about woodland and forestry. The complete statistics for 2017 are available on our forestry statistics web page.Please note – the printed version of this document is an A2 sheet folded to A6. The PDF of the document is set to print at A3 therefore some of the pages […]