Chris Reynolds

Project Leader

Project lead on adapting existing forestry species by looking at provenance choice and trialling emerging and new tree species that could adapt to the changing climate.

  

Affiliations

Associate member and SE Committee member: Institute of Chartered Foresters www.charteredforesters.org

Member: Royal Forestry Society www.rfs.org.uk

Member: International Dendrology Society https://dendrology.org/

Member : International Oak Society www.internationaloaksociety.org

Life member: The Maple Society https://maplesociety.org/en-gb

Life member: Friends of Bedgebury Pinetum https://bedgeburypinetum.org.uk/

Related research

Research topic

Priorities for research on Emerging Species

An analysis of species diversity of the Public Forest Estate in Britain to help inform the future direction of research on species and provenance.

Status: Completed

Themes

  • Genetics
  • Forest management
  • Pests and diseases
  • Climate change
Research topic

Provenance variation of emerging species

Forest Research has recently examined some long-term experiments to examine provenance variation of emerging species. The table below is a summary of how the results compare with Forestry Commission Bulletin…

Status: Current

Themes

  • Climate change
  • Forest management

Related publications

Peer reviewed papers

Providing the evidence base to diversify Britain’s forests

Early results of species and provenance trials established in 2012.

Themes

  • Climate change
  • Forest management
  • Pests and diseases

Reynolds, C., Jinks, R., Kerr, G., Parratt, M., and Mason, B. (2020) Providing the evidence base to diversify Britain’s forests: initial results from a new generation of species trials. QJF, 115(1):26-37.