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  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2023 review
    Lead Author: Racheal Lee
    This document is an Annex to the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme 2022 Review, and reports on the second year of the WPHSN activities undertaken on behalf of the Welsh Government. It describes a network of insect and spore traps placed at strategic woodland sites across Wales to monitor and record the presence/absence of invasive pests and pathogens which may negatively affect our trees, woodlands, and forests.
  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2022 review
    Lead Author: Racheal Lee
    This document describes and reports on the first year of activities undertaken for the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network (WPHSN), a ground-breaking Welsh Government funded project to monitor native and invasive pests and pathogens that may pose a threat to health of plants and trees across Wales.
  • Media

    WPHSN Report 2023

     A full report of the activities and findings from the second season of sampling undertaken for the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network.
  • Research

    Payments for ecosystem services

     Investigating a framework of incentives covering financing and paying for the benefits provided by ecosystems to households, communities and economies
  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Payments for ecosystems services
    Lead Author: Gregory Valatin
    Ecosystem services have traditionally been regarded as ‘free goods’ and there is a lack of incentives to protect them. Payments for Ecosystem Services attempt to rectify this, often through market mechanisms. The use of these schemes has become more widespread particularly in the USA and some developing countries. By Gregory Valatin (Forest Research) and Jenna Coull […]
  • Research

    Peatland ecosystem services

     Monitoring ecosystem services from afforested peatland and the effects of bog restoration and conversion to peatland edge woodland
  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Ecosystem services and forest management
    Lead Author: Louise Sing
    The ecosystem services concept helps describe the benefits which humans receive from nature and natural processes in a way that can influence policy and management decision making. The ability of trees, woodlands and forests to provide a wide range of ecosystem services is very much dependent on where they are located and how they are […]
  • Research

    Land Use and Ecosystem Services

     The research aims to increase our understanding of how woodlands and wooded landscapes provide a diverse range of ecosystem services (ES), and to help policymakers, forest managers and planners understand and assess how the specific placement and management of woodlands affects ES delivery at various scales.
  • Research

    Valuing tree and forest ecosystem services

     Our research explores the value of different tree and forest ecosystem services and uses innovative methods to identify and capture those values
  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Factsheet: Climate change and ecosystem services

     Climate change will have wide-ranging effects on ecosystem services
  • Publications
    Forestry publication document

    Delivery of ecosystem services by urban forests
    Lead Author: Helen Davies
    This Research Report looks at a broad range of urban forest-based ecosystem services and disservices and, using a literature review, links their provision with four aspects of urban forests (physical scale, physical structure and context in terms of location and proximity to people and land use and ownership). A key objective of this report is […]
  • Research

    Payments for Ecosystem Services (Forests for water)

     The aim of the PESFOR-W COST Action is to synthesize knowledge, provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe’s capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)