Forest infrastructure includes forest roads and rides, bridges, drainage systems, buildings and other facilities that enable management and access. Infrastructure plays a key role in the resilience of forests to climate change risks, such as flood water drainage and access for wildfire response.
In order to identify the most appropriate adaptation measures, forest and woodland managers should consider their management objectives alongside an assessment of climate change risks for their sites. Adaptation measures that will reduce the most immediate and greatest risks should be prioritised.
The rapidly changing climate is being driven by the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere (chiefly carbon dioxide, CO₂, methane, CH₄ and nitrous oxide, N₂O).
Our climate is changing, and even with strenuous global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the UK’s climate will continue to change for decades.
The changing climate will have a wide range of impacts across the UK, including to our trees and woodlands, including warmer temperatures and altered rainfall patterns.
The Holt Laboratory at the Alice Holt site
In May 2022, our state-of-the-art containment laboratory for identifying tree pests and diseases and conducting innovative research was officially opened.
The £5.8 million Forest Research Holt Laboratory, part of Alice Holt Research Station in Surrey, allows our scientists to identify pests and pathogens intercepted at the border and detected […]
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