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.

Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil sequester and store carbon, pulling damaging carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

An update from ForES project postdoc Francesco Martini on the team's recent visit with Pro Silva Ireland to a forest site managed with CCF

In advance of the holiday festivities, ForES Project PhD candidate Kathleen Conroy of Trinity College Dublin came up with this cute robot character Dot the Botany Bot to walk us through an animated explanation of how accounting for ecosystem services works in a forestry context... as Dot searches for the forest of her dreams. Does it exist? Click below to watch... What are ecosystem services? Ecosystem services are anything that the natural world provides that brings about a

Our research project, which will look to co-develop tools for sustainable forestry management decision-making, is led by natural scientists at Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with University College Dublin and Coillte, supported by the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine. It is well understood that forestry provides timber but it also supports biodiversity and supplies other public benefits, including carbon capture to tackle climate change. However, unless