Enhancing Integrated Pest Management in Forestry

Research objectives

• Review scientific literature and policy and practise guidance regarding pest management in forestry.
• Generate qualitative data from interviews with forest managers to understand their views and experiences of pest management.
• Identify integrated pest management (IPM) methods used in other sectors (e.g. agriculture) that could be adapted for forestry.
• Conduct a series of case studies to evaluate existing pest management strategies and scrutinise the development of new pest control methods and their integration into IPM strategies.
• Develop and test a metric that can be used to evaluate the use of Integrated Pest Management in UK forestry.
• Formulate recommendations and industry guidance based on research findings.