Woodland biodiversity

 

Research programmes

• Climate change: adapting forests and woodlands in Wales to a future climate
• Climate change: adapting Scotland's forests to a future climate
• Collaborative frameworks in land management: a case-study of wild deer in Britain
• Ecology of upland native woodlands
• Genetic conservation
• Habitat networks
• Habitats and Rare Priority Protected Species (HaRPPS)
• Impacts of large herbivores on woodlands
• Improving the ecological content of Forest Plans
• Landscape ecology
• Lowland native woodlands
• Management and restoration of priority open habitats 
• Species Action Plan research

Publications

• Publications about woodland biodiversity
• Ecotype - the Biodiversity Newsletter of Woodland Ecology
  Regular updates on progress in woodland biodiversity available in PDF format.

Related products and services

• Alice Holt Research Forest - conduct studies with access to 50 years’ scientific data
• Ecological Site Classification Decision Support System - help to select ecologically suited species to sites
• Technical services - ecological, forest, soil and site surveys

Contact

For further information contact:

Chris Quine
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY

Tel: 0131 445 2176
Fax: 0131 445 5124
Email: chris.quine@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Research into 'woodland biodiversity' within Forest Research is centred in the Ecology Division.