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This report summarises the results of a national baseline survey on public attitudes to plant health.

This tree species guide, developed in partnership with the University of Reading following a rapid review of literature, databases, and stakeholder consultation, provides a user-friendly overview of the physical characteristics, environmental tolerances, silvicultural traits, and ecosystem services and disservices of 33 tree and shrub species suitable for UK agroforestry systems.

This report reviews existing studies estimating future timber prices and price elasticities of demand for emerging species and different product categories, focusing on studies most relevant to UK timber markets. The emerging species considered are those tree species predicted to have a more prominent role in UK forestry in the...

This report outlines a study undertaken to estimate the potential flood storage provided by beaver dams during flood events, comparing this with existing man-made timber bunds to determine whether the beaver dams offer comparable storage volumes such that the eventual loss/failure of the timber bunds does not pose an increased...

This review summarises the available economic literature on barriers and enabling factors affecting the ability of specific publics to access woodlands. In particular, distance to woodland, income, socioeconomic variables, health and disability are analysed as factors affecting individuals’ frequency of visits to woodlands and willingness to pay (WTP) for woodland...

A photo essay based on interviews with 16 arts and humanities practitioners and academics, focusing on their relationship with Trees Outside of Woodland. Key themes that emerge include childhood memories and experiences, emotional connections and the interconnectedness of humans and nature.

A secondary analysis of data from an online, UK representative survey, in-depth interviews and photo elicitation was used to investigate the terms people use to describe trees and places with trees, the importance of trees to perceptions of naturalness and nature connection, and whether trees were associated with greater wellbeing.

The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) forms a major part of GB's Future Surveillance Plan (FSP). The FTN specifically targets quarantine and priority species which other survey methods cannot detect.

Non-hazardous rapeseed oil spray adjuvants do not improve the rainfastness or effectiveness of glyphosate for Rhododendron ponticum shrub control.

An analysis of relevant species trials was carried out to assess the productivity of potential alternative conifer species to Sitka spruce on upland site types in Britain. Data from 87 forest experiments planted between 1929 and 1995 were analysed to compare long-term performance of 52 species with that of Sitka...

Understanding how we can increase the resilience of forest systems to future extreme drought events is increasingly important as these events become more frequent and intense. Diversifying production forests using intimate mixtures of trees with complementary functional traits is considered as one promising silvicultural approach that may increase drought resilience....

Urban forests can both help reduce climate change and help urban society cope with its impacts.