Sustainable forest management

What are the ecological and physiological consequences of provenance movements across a species' range? Are the risks of, e.g., frost damage increased when a provenance is moved significantly northward?

What are the current effects of past practices, such as large-scale forest fertilisation, that were carried out in the UK decades ago? Is there a memory effect or did they produce a merely ephemeral response?

What are the interactions between forest structure and tree stability to windthrow? Are mixed uneven-aged forests inherently more or less stable to wind damage compared to monospecific even-aged stands?

These are some of the questions that we are currently exploring. Most of our research is done in partnership with other agencies such as Forest Research.

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