top of page
NEWS
Search

New paper: A capacity index to connect ecosystem condition to ecosystem services accounts
Ecosystems have different capacities to supply ecosystem services. A plantation forest might be ideal for timber not for wildlife habitat
49 views
0 comments


Responsible forestry can pull us back from a 'carbon cliff' - Yvonne Buckley, The Irish Times
Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil sequester and store carbon, pulling damaging carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
64 views
0 comments


A tree is a tree: broadleaves or conifers?
There are many arguments about which type of tree is 'better' but both broadleaves and conifers fulfil different roles within ecosystems
91 views
0 comments

What is ecosystem conversion and what are the implications for sustainable forestry?
Our project aims to develop a tool to value the ecosystem services that forests provide to enable better decisions for the most...
133 views
0 comments

Fires in forests can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand
Forest fires can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand. ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy looks at the issues
64 views
0 comments


Which provides 'better' ecosystem services, natural forests or plantations?
The ES in ForES project stands for ecosystem services but which type of forest do we consider to provide 'better” ecosystem services,...
121 views
0 comments


Trees on farms: A basic understanding of Agroforestry
The concept of agroforestry can seem intimidating. Breaking it down: agro- (Greek, means “field”) and forestry (Latin, means “the outside...
405 views
0 comments

There Used to Be a Forest There: A Very Short Introduction to the History of Forests in Ireland
Kathleen Conroy, our ForES PhD at Trinity College Dublin, writes a potted history of Irish forests, when and why deforestation on a major...
240 views
0 comments
bottom of page