NEWS

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

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

There are many arguments about which type of tree is 'better' but both broadleaves and conifers fulfil different roles within ecosystems

Our project aims to develop a tool to value the ecosystem services that forests provide to enable better decisions for the most...

Forest fires can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand. ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy looks at the issues

The ES in ForES project stands for ecosystem services but which type of forest do we consider to provide 'better” ecosystem services,...

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

Kathleen Conroy, our ForES PhD at Trinity College Dublin, writes a potted history of Irish forests, when and why deforestation on a major...