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This stakeholder co-designed project will explore the ecological and societal significance of Ancient and Long-established Woodland, supporting policy development to protect irreplaceable habitat and aiding acceptance of any adjustment to definitions.

The NCEA TOW map will be used to characterise the setting, distribution and density of TOW features across England and explore the implications of regional variations for key habitats, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

This project will use remote sensing to map structural diversity across English woodlands, complement locally derived woodland condition assessments, and test the impacts of forest management on structural diversity and carbon sequestration. We will also engage with private woodland owners through a Forest Lab project called ‘Living Layers’.

This extension to Expanding Agroforestry addresses priority policy evidence needs and delivers tools to support the strategic expansion of UK agroforestry and hedgerows to meet biodiversity and net zero targets, through stakeholder and policy co-design.

LERN aims to enhance understanding of nature recovery by establishing a national network of experimental woodland creation sites to provide robust evidence supporting policy and practice.

Overview The overall aim of the review is to explore whether there is sufficient evidence to understand relationships between these forest types and their associated biodiversity and to identify gaps in understanding. Such a review is particularly needed at this time of significant declines in biodiversity and associated regulating and...

Project exploring the ecological function of Trees outside Woodland (ToW), using detailed mapping and biodiversity investigations.

Project investigating mycorrhizal fungal communities in areas of natural colonisation, and making links with wider ecosystem biodiversity.

Project exploring the movement of species between woodlands, and how to fast-track connectivity within fragmented landscapes.

Project exploring integrated (woodland) habitat connectivity, using advanced spatial mapping to generate biodiversity insights.

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

Project assessing the efficacy, biodiversity, carbon impacts and ecology of natural colonisation as a means of establishing new woodland.