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This journal article, published in Soil and Use Management, evaluates soil structure and carbon content across a chronosequence of UK woodlands established over the last 160 years and old-growth woodland (250+ years old) compared to pasture sites.

This journal article, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, examines complexity in the context of restoration within two contrasting ecosystems, 54 calcareous grasslands and 60 broadleaved woodlands. Using Structural Equation Models, we quantify the effect of key drivers on complexity and the strength of associations among different aspects of...

Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current landscape configuration, effectively focusing on spatial patterns rather than the process of change over time. We identify many issues that emerge from focusing...

The Climate and Nature – Living Soils Deliver for Both report highlights that soil-centric approaches must be placed at the heart of planning, policy, and development for the resilience and benefit or our health, economy and wider society.

This report synthesises key findings from the June 2025 Forest Research–Bangor University expert workshop and the wider evidence review undertaken for the Forestry section of the UK’s Fourth Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA4)

This guidance provides information to forest managers on both transforming stands to continuous cover forestry (CCF) and on managing stands using CCF approaches.

This Research Report draws on case studies and expert interviews to summarise key issues land managers must navigate when considering, pursuing, and working with green finance.

This study explores how scenario planning - a technique for imagining and preparing for different possible futures - can help forest managers make better decisions.

Overview In this paper the importance of matching restoration methods and FRM to site and climate conditions is outlined, the risks of using unsuitable material are highlighted, and findings from the B4EST project are summarised, including advances in climate‑informed FRM selection, genomic tools and seed‑orchard deployment to support resilient planting...

Summary In this paper the effects of climate and socio‑economic change on Scotland’s national forests are explored using 100‑year scenario modelling, comparing a baseline management approach with scenarios that prioritise either biodiversity, carbon or timber. Results show that while the baseline delivers balanced, modest gains across most ecosystem services, forcing...

This report is the first evidence of D. corticola’s ability to colonise and develop symptoms on A. procera. This is also the first report of natural D. corticola infections of Q. cerris, Q. ilex, Q. robur and Q. semecarpifolia in the UK.

This factsheet explores the climate change risks associated with woodlands on previously used land.