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 handForest 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 AgroforestryThe concept of agroforestry can seem intimidating. Breaking it down: agro- (Greek, means “field”) and forestry (Latin, means “the outside...