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Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2022 review

Lead Author: Racheal Lee

This document describes and reports on the first year of activities undertaken for the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network (WPHSN), a ground-breaking Welsh Government funded project to monitor native and invasive pests and pathogens that may pose a threat to health of plants and trees across Wales.

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Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2023 review

Lead Author: Racheal Lee

This document is an Annex to the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme 2022 Review, and reports on the second year of the WPHSN activities undertaken on behalf of the Welsh Government. It describes a network of insect and spore traps placed at strategic woodland sites across Wales to monitor and record the presence/absence of invasive pests and pathogens which may negatively affect our trees, woodlands, and forests.

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Forests and biodiversity

The conservation of biodiversity is an essential part of sustainable forest management.

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[Archive] Managing forests for biodiversity

Lead Author: Richard Ferris-Kaan

Managing Forests for Biodiversity was the title of a one-day symposium, organised by the British Ecological Society’s Forest Ecology Group, and held at the Maybury Hotel, Edinburgh on 2 September 1992. This Technical Paper is a record of papers presented at the symposium plus additional information, preceded by a brief introductory review. The symposium was […]

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WPHSN Report 2023

A full report of the activities and findings from the second season of sampling undertaken for the Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network.

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Biodiversity in Britain’s planted forests

Lead Author: Jonathan W Humphrey

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The FOrest Biodiversity Index (FOBI)

Forest Research, Forestry & Land Scotland and Forestry England have co-developed an evidence based, repeatable approach for assessing the biodiversity potential of the National Forest Estate. Several extent, condition, connectivity and diversity metrics are measured and aggregated into a Combined Biodiversity Index. An online, interactive tool allows users to explore mapped scores.

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[Archive] Domestic stock grazing to enhance woodland biodiversity

This Note describes the influence of domestic stock on woodland habitats and their associated flora and fauna and provides guidance on the use of domestic stock to re-create, maintain and enhance the characteristics of semi-natural woodlands.

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The devil is in the detail: Metabarcoding of arthropods provides a sensitive measure of biodiversity response to forest stand composition compared with surrogate measures of biodiversity

Lead Author: Nadia Barsoum

We investigated whether biodiversity information obtained from DNA metabarcoding of mass-trapped arthropods and from a range of taxa-based surrogate measures of biodiversity (e.g. carabid beetles, vascular plants) provide: 1) similar estimates of alpha and beta diversity and 2) provide similar forest management related conclusions. We also explored how well habitat-based surrogate measures of biodiversity (e.g. stand structure, volume of deadwood) predict observed biodiversity patterns.

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[Archive] An introduction to new landscape ecology research to enhance biodiversity in British forests

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Using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding to detect species and improve forest biodiversity monitoring

Lead Author: Nadia Barsoum

Growing threats to biodiversity from pressure of land use, climate change, and invasive pests and diseases highlight the importance of obtaining accurate baseline measurements of current forest biodiversity, as well as improved monitoring to detect early signals of change. Developments in molecular techniques have advanced to the stage that there are now practical methods available […]

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The public, visits to the countryside, and biosecurity – Questionnaire Results

The public, visits to the countryside, and biosecurity - Questionnaire Results

Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2022 review

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[Archive] Managing forests for biodiversity

WPHSN Report 2023

Biodiversity in Britain’s planted forests

The FOrest Biodiversity Index (FOBI)

[Archive] Domestic stock grazing to enhance woodland biodiversity

The devil is in the detail: Metabarcoding of arthropods provides a sensitive measure of biodiversity response to forest stand composition compared with surrogate measures of biodiversity

[Archive] An introduction to new landscape ecology research to enhance biodiversity in British forests

Using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding to detect species and improve forest biodiversity monitoring

The public, visits to the countryside, and biosecurity – Questionnaire Results

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Welsh Plant Health Surveillance Network Programme: 2022 review

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Forests and biodiversity

[Archive] Managing forests for biodiversity

WPHSN Report 2023

Biodiversity in Britain’s planted forests

The FOrest Biodiversity Index (FOBI)

[Archive] Domestic stock grazing to enhance woodland biodiversity

The devil is in the detail: Metabarcoding of arthropods provides a sensitive measure of biodiversity response to forest stand composition compared with surrogate measures of biodiversity

[Archive] An introduction to new landscape ecology research to enhance biodiversity in British forests

Using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding to detect species and improve forest biodiversity monitoring

The public, visits to the countryside, and biosecurity – Questionnaire Results