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Forest Research is collaborating with stakeholders across the forestry sector to assemble the evidence required to select a shortlist of productive tree species most suited to current and future conditions. This will guide actions to diversify our forests and increase their resilience to pests and diseases and climate change.

Agroforestry, the integration of managed trees and agriculture, will help meet national tree planting commitments and provide social, environmental and economic benefits. This project will develop and test a monitoring and evaluation framework for agroforestry agri-environment schemes to measure scheme outcomes and improve future offers.

This project evaluates the potential use of detection dogs to support spruce movement inspections within demarcated areas in England, helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of efforts to control Ips typographus outbreaks.

Exploring the role of existing tree buffers in reducing urban noise from road and rail traffic.

Branching Out is a project led by Loughborough University that aims to meaningfully account for the social and cultural values of treescapes.

Imogen Cavadino-Phillips

Identification of Ips typographus can be difficult when samples are damaged, degraded, or do not contain adult beetles. Two different molecular tests are being developed to aid the identification of Ips typographus in the lab and field, improving our ability to diagnose the pest rapidly and accurately.

The National Conversation project aims to lay the foundations for a national conversation on plant and tree health and biosecurity, by developing our understanding of the public’s awareness, attitudes, motivations and actions around the topic and exploring opportunities to encourage action for plant health and biosecurity through targeted interventions.

Daegan Inward Katy Reed

Daegan Inward Katy Reed

This project scopes whether Calosoma sycophanta could be reintroduced as a biocontrol agent for OPM in the UK.

Catchment Lab aims to establish the UK's first catchment laboratories network to assess woodland creation's water impacts. It will provide critical data, refine models, foster partnerships, and expand a monitoring network to inform Defra’s water policies.