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ForES article for British Ecological Society Special Interest Group on 'The Natural Capital of Irish Forests'

The ForES project team recently published an article in the BES Forest Ecology Group, a British Ecological Society Special Interest Group on The Natural Capital of Irish Forests.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...