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This project expanded Forest Research’s intensive forest monitoring network to seven sites, enabling assessment of environmental change impacts on riparian and ancient woodland. This data, analysed within the context of UK International Co-operative Programme (ICP) Forest network, will deepen understanding of forest ecosystems and strengthen the scientific basis for air‑pollution...

The NCEA Trees Outside Woodland (TOW) survey maps and assesses individual trees, small groups, and hedgerows across England. These non‑woodland trees support biodiversity, improve habitat links, store carbon, and help cool urban areas. This survey strengthens the monitoring and management of these important features.

The NCEA Air Quality project assesses data availability, suitability, and gaps to improve quantification of forests’ natural capital in air‑pollution mitigation and the impacts of pollutants on forest ecosystems. It supports modelling using long‑term monitoring and inventory datasets, and expands ongoing air‑pollution monitoring across Forest Research’s intensive ICP Forests Level...

A national assessment of forest soil condition integrating chemical, physical and biological indicators to inform soil health, ecosystem services, sustainable forest management and environmental policy.

This project aimed to overcome common challenges in the study of soil biodiversity in terms of taxonomy and sampling replication, with the development of a machine learning-based ‘MESOSCAN’ dataset and tool, for soil biodiversity identification (mesofauna).

Bats are a powerful indicator of woodland ecosystem health. The National Woodland Bat Survey uses acoustic monitoring to assess bat presence, distribution and relative abundance across England’s woodlands.

This project will develop a multi-criteria assessment framework to evaluate the benefits, constraints and risks of productive tree species, and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritise species for national deployment to drive diversification and increase resilience.

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 aims to improve the inter-annual monitoring of tree growth across England by developing the foundations for a cost-effective, robust and representative national network.

Our vision is to establish and strategise a national Research Forests Network to provide a strategic series of experiments and demonstration sites that will inform industry practice towards climate-smart forestry.

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.

PEATFLUX+ will provide essential GHG balance quantification for forest-to-bog conversion, allowing the 2nd year of GHG flux measurements for model calibration, LCA analysis, and adding important new evidence on hydrology and soil biodiversity.