What is the best tree field guide?
A good tree field guide should help you identify a tree while you’re out and about, wherever it is and whatever time of year. What’s your favourite field guide?Continue Reading
A good tree field guide should help you identify a tree while you’re out and about, wherever it is and whatever time of year. What’s your favourite field guide?Continue Reading
What factors do you think will most affect woodland management in the UK over the next 50 years? Have your say …Continue Reading
A paper published recently has presented ‘ten golden rules’ which the authors say should be followed to help deliver sustainable reforestation around the world.Continue Reading
This is the title of a guest blog that I wrote for BMC, part of the Springer group of academic publishers, published today. Continue Reading
A new paper published this month demonstrates a clear relationship between the prevailing worldviews of land owners and their distrust in policy, in their willingness to adopt practices that will help adaptation to environmental change.Continue Reading
Today, the media picked up on the importance of the scientific paper which I revealed yesterday, which calculates the economic cost of ash dieback in Britain to total £15 billion.Continue Reading
A research paper published today estimates that the cost of ash dieback in Britain will reach £15 billion. I was privileged to have supported lead author Louise Hill as an external supervisor, and to be a co-author of the paper. Continue Reading
One of my more recent co-authored research articles has been selected as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in The Applied Ecologist’s Blog . The paper, Maintaining ecosystem properties after loss of ash in Great Britain by Louise Hill et al, focusses on the importance of using plant functional traits to predict potential changes to an ecosystem, following the loss of a key species.Continue Reading
Devolution, pests & pathogens, Brexit, emerging markets, climate change, societal attitudes . . . these are just some of the momentous factors influencing our trees and woodlands, those who care for them, and those who rely on their products and services. Have your say about what these and other issuesContinue Reading
This week a National Tree Improvement Strategy for Britain and Ireland has been launched by the Future Trees Trust.Continue Reading
I’ve recently co-authored this scientific paper which reveals the history of common walnut in Europe. Abstract Common walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide for its high-quality wood and nuts. It is generally accepted that after the last glaciation J. regia survived and grew in almost completelyContinue Reading
Environmental change is impacting Britain’s trees and forests with increasing frequency and severity, caused by human influences and/or natural ecological processes. Somerset owner William Theed replanted with different conifer species when Japanese larch in his woodland was the first in the UK attacked by Phytophthora ramorum. Photo Gabriel Hemery. An important national surveyContinue Reading
What did you think about the Vision for the future of England’s trees and forests presented by the Our Forests ginger group? Have your say …Continue Reading
The Independent Panel on Forestry sponsored Forest Research to host a workshop, held on 9 November 2011, to identify the strengths and opportunities of the current research programmes and make recommendations for future research priorities for forestry in England. The workshop was attended by a range of participants from the research,Continue Reading
Basal area data for common walnut (Juglans regia), plus number of stems per area, crown size and stem diameter.Continue Reading
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