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Factsheet: Climate change and ecosystem services
Climate change will have wide-ranging effects on ecosystem services
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Factsheet: Climate change and human behaviours
There is increasing interest in designing policy interventions to sustain positive individual or societal behaviours and to encourage behaviour change which tackles environmental issues including climate change.
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Ecological implications of oak decline in Great Britain
This Research Note describes the ecological value of Great Britain’s native oaks, as reflected in the biodiversity supported by the trees and ecosystem functions the trees perform.
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Why society needs nature
This was a joint collaborative piece of work between Natural Resources Wales, Forest Research, Natural England, NatureScot and the Environment Agency. It aimed to bring together and summarise research conducted…
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Bridging the knowledge to action gap for tree health
Research investigating barriers and solutions for translating forest and land manager knowledge into action to prevent and mitigate tree pest and disease impacts and build resilience into our treescapes.
Enhancing Integrated Pest Management in Forestry
How do we manage insect pests in forestry? This PhD project aims to evaluate current science and practise and develop and test new and improved methods in order to enhance integrated pest management in the industry.
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Why society needs nature - Lessons from research during Covid-19
The Covid-19 Pandemic and associated ‘lockdown’ restrictions in 2020 impacted people’s lives in many ways, including how often people visited nature and their experiences of it. This report concerns how people visited green and blue natural spaces and their experiences of this during 2020.
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PRAFOR: Probabilistic drought Risk Analysis for FORested landscapes
Probabilistic drought risk analysis
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Selecting urban trees for ecosystem service provision
Urban trees provide a range of benefits or ‘ecosystem services’ to society.
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Trees, greenspace and urban cooling
Trees and greenspaces can play an important role in reducing the negative impact of the urban heat island effect on urban communities.