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Explore how Alice Holt Forest provides a uniquely well‑documented, climate‑monitored and research‑ready environment for studies across ecology, sustainability and social forestry.

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

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...

Explore insights from applying FOrest Biodiversity Index (FOBI) across state-owned forests in England and Scotland, demonstrating how it can inform decisions at multiple scales.

The Forest Biodiversity Index provides an effective method for assessing the biodiversity potential of state-owned forests in Britain.

Learn about the Forest Biodiversity Index (FOBI), a new tool to monitor, report and enhance biodiversity potential in UK forests over time.

Forest Research, Forestry and 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.

The Rapid Review of Evidence on Biodiversity in Great Britain’s Commercial Forests is a review of evidence on biodiversity in many of the most commonly encountered commercial high forest types in Great Britain.

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...

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.

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...