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Water is the most vital element of all natural resources and is essential to life.

The aim of the PESFOR-W COST Action is to synthesize knowledge, provide guidance and encourage collaborative research to improve Europe’s capacity to use Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

Forest Research publishes a range of research and guidance aimed at forestry practitioners, policymakers, and an interested public. Many of our guidance publications support the UK Forestry Standard, and aim to provide detailed guidance on specific areas of forestry practice. Our research publications focus on specific areas of forestry-related research...

Research to understand woodland-water interactions to reduce diffuse pollution and improve water quality

Improving ability to quantify amount of water used by trees through a range of process, field-catchment and modelling studies

This project aims to monitor the effects of aerial and hand forest fertiliser applications on water quality in sensitive water catchments.

This Bulletin reviews the evidence for a suggested forest effect in the acidification of surface waters in Great Britain. Acid deposition from the atmosphere within susceptible areas of Britain has affected fresh water flora and fauna, causing the decline and in some instances the complete loss of fish populations. Currently...

Forests and forest management practices can affect surface water acidification in a number of ways. The primary mechanism is the ability of tree canopies to capture more sulphur and nitrogen pollutants from the atmosphere than other types of vegetation. Pollutant scavenging is expected to have peaked in the 1970s when...

This Practice Guide provides advice to forest managers, practitioners, planners and supervisors, on how forest operations should be planned and managed to protect the water environment.

Atmospheric pollution in the form of acid deposition has been dramatically reduced since international controls on emissions were introduced in the 1980s. However, acidification still affects acid-sensitive regions of the UK, damaging fisheries and causing adverse ecological changes in freshwaters. Forestry is known to influence the degree of acidification, principally...

Analysis of 22 years of water chemistry data from afforested Welsh catchments revealed trends indicative of recovery from acidification

Results from an ongoing study in lowland streams in the New Forest