Ecosystems have different capacities to supply ecosystem services. A plantation forest might be ideal for timber not for wildlife habitat

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

This summer ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy and Postdoc Francesco Martini of Trinity College Dublin represented our project at a number of conferences and summer schools. Here's an update on what they have been working on and what's to come... June 2023 Kathleen Conroy attended the British Ecological Society Trees for Climate Change, Biodiversity and People symposium. She presented a poster entitled “Creating Ecosystem Extent Accounts to Understand Land Use Change in Irish

Our Trinity College Dublin researchers will be presenting their ForES work on ecosystem extent accounts for forest sites at a number of events this summer. Read more... Our ForES PhD Candidate Kathleen Conroy will be speaking at the Trees for Climate Change, Biodiversity and People event in Canterbury, England, hosted by The Woodland Trust , University of Kent and the British Ecological Society , which takes place from June 28-29. The presentation topic will be 'Creating Ext

The ES in ForES project stands for ecosystem services but which type of forest do we consider to provide 'better” ecosystem services, natural forests or plantations? Our post-doc Francesco Martini looks at the question... The 2020s is the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and efforts to restore degraded ecosystems, including forests, are growing. Replanting forests in previously forested areas (i.e., reforestation) or planting completely new forests where there were none bef