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Our team's on-site day of learning about Continuous Cover Forestry with Pro Silva Ireland

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

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Watch: Dot the Botany Bot - an animation explaining how forest ecosystem services can be accounted for

In advance of the holiday festivities, ForES Project PhD candidate Kathleen Conroy of Trinity College Dublin came up with this cute robot...

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A summer of learning and sharing for our team

This summer ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy and Postdoc Francesco Martini of Trinity College Dublin represented our project at a number...

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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...

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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,...

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Trees on farms: A basic understanding of Agroforestry

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

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ROLE: ForES Project seeks Postdoctoral Researcher

The ForES project is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher. The position is for 2 years and the successful applicant will work...

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There Used to Be a Forest There: A Very Short Introduction to the History of Forests in Ireland

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

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