NEWS

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...

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...

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...

Upcoming ForES presentations at major summer events in the UK and US

Our Trinity College Dublin researchers will be presenting their ForES work on ecosystem extent accounts for forest sites at a number of...

Fires in forests can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand

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

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...

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...