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Forestry@黑料不打烊

We are the longest-standing Forestry department in the UK with a reputation for conducting international research of outstanding quality.

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Our Research

We are at the forefront of international forestry research. Our team is multidisciplinary and spans the entire breadth of forestry discipline.

We have active research programmes, investigating boreal and tropical forests and everything in between.

Our research work spans the following topics:

  • role of forests and wood products in climate change
  • climate change adaption
  • mitigation
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity conservation
  • forest resilience
  • agroforestry and food security
  • flood protection
  • nutrient cycling
  • human wellbeing
  • recreation 

 

Excellent facilities for forestry research

Located a short distance from the main University buildings in 黑料不打烊 are and Henfaes Research Centre - both inspiring facilities used for our teaching and research activities.

Woodland in spring with bluebells out.

Latest news and views

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Forestry@黑料不打烊 newsletters

Students on the Tropical Study Tour in Uganda, 2025

Forestry Newsletter 2026
Alumni and staff attending the 120 years of Forestry celebratory event

Forestry Newsletter 2024
Students on the forestry trip during welcome week

Forestry Newsletter 2022
Two students kneeling in the soil with tools and plants, taking notes in a notebook

Forestry Newsletter 2020
A group of forestry students wearing high-vis coats in a forest

Forestry Newsletter 2018

Featured researchers

Find out more about some of our researchers. A full list of staff and students can be found below.

Image of member of staff, John Healy, taking measurements of a tree trunk

Prof John Healey

John researches the ecology, management and ecosystem services of forests and agroforestry systems.

Woman in hard hat with greenery around her

Dr Marielle Smith

Marielle is an ecosystem ecologist who is driven to understand the fate of forests in the face of global change. Over the last decade, Marielle's work has focused on tropical forests particularly in the Brazilian Amazon.

Image of staff member, Farnon Ellwood climbing a ladder

Dr Farnon Ellwood

Farnon studies the patterns and processes structuring tropical forests and agricultural ecosystems such as those oil palm landscapes transforming Southeast Asia.

Professor Andy Smith visiting a Sitka spruce plantation in Scotland

Prof Andy Smith

Andy researches forest ecology, biogeochemistry and plant-soil interactions with emphasis on species diversity and ecosystem function in undisturbed and managed ecosystems.

Forestry researchers and staff

Professors

Senior Lecturers & Senior Research Fellows

Lecturers & Research Fellows

Post-doctoral Researchers

Research Technicians

  • Dr Adam Pinder
  • Miss Anna Ray
  • Gloria Adeyiga (finished in 2025)
    • Project: Exploring the Impacts of Gender Transformative Actions on Landscape Restoration Outcomes in the Sahelian Parklands of Northern Ghana.
    • Supervisor: Dr Tim Pagella
  • Jack Aitkin-Willoughby
    • Project: Restoring for a resilient future: Woodland community assembly trajectories in the face of multiple stressors.
    • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith, Prof John Healey, Dr Mike Perring (UKCEH) and Prof Laurence Jones (UKCEH).
  • Matt Cooper
    • Project: Investigating the potential of forested lands for natural flood management in Wales.
    • Supervisors: Dr Sopan Patil, Prof Andy Smith and Prof Morag McDonald.
  • Tilly Edwards
    • Project: Assessing the impact of lichens and bryophytes on GHG dynamics in temperate rainforests.
    • Supervisors: Dr Karina Marsden, Dr Tim Peters, Dr Sabine Reich (UKCEH) and Prof Andy Smith,
  • Dan Fishburn
    • Project: Modulating role of lithology in the response of Mediterranean forest to climate change.
    • Supervisors: Dr Lars Markesteijn, Dr Ana Rey and Prof Andy Smith.
  • Kate Heaphy
    • Project: Drought responses of the Amazon rainforest in areas of differing water table depths.
    • Supervisor: Dr Marielle Smith
  • Sophie Higgett
    • Project: Ecologically based approaches to temperate rainforest restoration.
    • Supervisors: Prof John Healey, Dr Marielle Smith and Dr Bid Webb
  • Sam Hollick
    • Project: Optimising landscape shelterbelts to sustainably increase farm livestock productivity and build resilience to extreme events.
    • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith and Dr Mark Rayment.
  • Daniel Iddon
    • Project: Living Soil.
    • Supervisors: Prof Andy Smith, Prof Dave Chadwick and Dr Tim Peters.
  • Yawo Jonky Tenou
    • Project: Institutional Barriers and Enabling Mechanisms to Deliver Impactful Outcomes in Large-Scale Agricultural Development Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
    • Supervisor: Dr Eefke Mollee, Dr Tim Pagella and Prof Fergus Sinclair.
  • Endri Martini
    • Project: Extension Approaches for Sustainable Production of Agroforestry Commodities in Indonesia.
    • Supervisor: Dr Eefke Mollee, Dr Bid Webb and Dr Tim Pagella.
  • Swati Renduchintala
    • Project: A systems' transition to natural farming and women's agency in India.
    • Supervisor: Dr Eefke Mollee, Dr Tim Pagella and Prof Fergus Sinclair.
  • Harry Skinner
    • Project: Altered states: will forest-agriculture mosaic landscapes allow the long-term survival of a forest-specialist primate?
    • Supervisor: Dr Alex Georgiev, Prof John Healey, Dr Eleanor Warren-Thomas and Graeme Shannon.
  • Aulia Soebandhi
    • Project: Farmers' Resilient Decision-Making on Agroforestry Diversification in the tropical drylands of west Timor, Indonesia.
    • Supervisor: Dr Eefke Mollee, Dr Ashley Hardaker and Dr Tim Pagella.
  • Yiting Su
    • Project: Tree species identification using optical remote sensing and LiDAR.
    • Supervisor: Prof Andy Smith.
  • Nisabhat Tonwoot
    • Project: Opportunities for Forest Management Certification in Thailand
    • Supervisor: Dr Neal Hockley and Prof John Healey
  • Tonthoza Uganja
    • Project: Tracking what Matters: Monitoring Forest Landscape Restoration in Malawi.
    • Supervisor: Dr James Gibbons and Dr Eefke Mollee.
  • Xingguang Yan
    • Project: Estimation of forest ecosystem carbon stocks using remotely sensed data, machine learning and the Google Earth Engine.
    • Supervisor: Prof Andy Smith.

Featured projects

Find out about current Forestry projects by reading our project pages and blogs:

wind thrown trees

Linking tree nursery practice to windthrow risk in UK forestry
Tree Nursery

Development of regenerative tree nursery practice

Nutrient addition plots in a mature oak forest

Carbon and nutrient dynamics of a mature oak forest in a high CO2 world.
Wild mushroom growing in a forest

Understanding memory of UK treescapes for better resilience and adaptation
Forest track

Autonomous Systems for Forest ProtEctioN (ASPEN)
A map of the world with a magnifying glass lookig closer at Europe

Mapping forest carbon stocks using polarimetric SAR images in mountainous regions
Fir forest or woodland

DiversiTree examining the resilience of woodlands to climate change, and pests and diseases.

Forestry projects

Our projects have global reach, using the diverse expertise of 黑料不打烊 staff, research students, and collaborators.

  • title of project and link to project page
  • title of project and link to project page

Recent Publications

A selection of recent publications from Forestry researchers is listed here, but for all the latest publications, please check individual researcher pages linked above.

  • Kuria, AW, Pagella, T, Muthuri, CW & Sinclair, FL 2025, , Frontiers in Agronomy, vol. 7, 1537012. 
  • Cole, R, Gittins, H, Dandy N 2024, 鈥鈥.&苍产蝉辫;British Food Journal, Vol. 126 No. 5 pp. 2187鈥2203. 
  • Isaac, M.E., Sinclair, F., Laroche, G. et al.&苍产蝉辫;2024.&苍产蝉辫;鈥. Agroforest Syst 98, 2369鈥2383. 
  • Critchley, W, Harari, N, Bern, U & Bern, U 2023, '',鈥Land, vol. 12, no. 6, 1206.鈥 
  • Spear, M, Dimitriou, A, Curling, S & Ormondroyd, G 2025, , Fibers, vol. 13, no. 2, 23. 
  • Spear, M & Hart, J 2025, , Forests, vol. 16, no. 7, 1162. 
  • Spear, M & Bak, M 2024, , Forests, vol. 15, no. 7, 1268.  
  • Armijos-Barros, J, Gonz谩lez-S谩nchez, DP, Nole-Nole, D, Markesteijn, L, Escudero, A, Jara-Guerrero, A & Espinosa, CI 2025, , PhytoKeys, vol. 265, pp. 181-192. 
  • Gresham, A, Healey, JR, Lawrence, PJ, Eichhorn, MP & Shannon, G 2025, ', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, vol. 6, no. 2, e70044. 
  • Gresham, A, Pillay, K, Healey, J, Eichhorn, M, Ellison, A, Lowe, A, Creer, S, Cordes, L & Shannon, G 2025, , Ecological Solutions and Evidence, vol. 6, no. 1, e70008.  
  • Foyer, C, Gardner, A, Hayward, S, Sanchez-Lucas, R, Luna, E, McDonald, J, Rumeau, M, Hart, KM, Norby, RJ, Mayoral, C, Gauci, V, Smith, A, Hartley, I, Crowley, LM, Sadler, J, Ullah, S & MacKenzie, AR 2025, , Global Change Biology, vol. 31, no. 7, e70355. 
  • Moln谩r V., A, Kis, S, Bak, H, Nagy, T, Tak谩cs, A, Mainwaring, MC & Nagy, J 2025, ', Plants, vol. 14, no. 21, 3366. 
  • Norby, RJ, Loader, N, Mayoral, C, Ullah, S, Curioni, G, Smith, A, Reay, MK, van Wijngaarden, K, Amjad, MS, Brettle, D, Crockatt, ME, Denny, G, Grzesik, RT, Hamilton, RL, Hart, KM, Hartley, IP, Jones, AG, Kourmouli, A, Larsen, JR, Shi, Z, Thomas, RM & MacKenzie, AR 2024, , Nature Climate Change, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 983-988. 
  • Sarkissian AJ and Kutia M 2024 鈥鈥.&苍产蝉辫;Front. For. Glob. Change 7:1533425. 
  • Tang, W, Liu, S, Jing, M, Healey, J, Smith, M, Farooq, TH, Zhu, L, Zhao, S & Wu, Y 2024, , Global Change Biology, vol. 30, no. 7, e17441. 
  • Vinod, N, Slot, M, McGregor, I, Ordway, E, Taylor, TC, Sack, L, Buckley, T & Anderson-Teixeira, K 2023, '',鈥New Phytologist, vol. 237, no. 1, pp. 22-47.鈥 
  • Bishop, G, Duffy, C, Berndes, G, Brandao, M, Cowie, A, Healey, J, Hennig, C, Koponen, K, Gaffey, J & Styles, D 2026, ', Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 7, 233. 
  • Forster, E, Styles, D & Healey, J 2025, , Nature Communications, vol. 16, 3872 . 
  • McNicol, L, Williams, N, Chadwick, D, Styles, D, Rees, RM, Ramsey, R & Williams, P 2024, ', Agricultural Systems, vol. 215, no. 103852, 103852. 
  • Forster, E, Newman, G & Styles, D 2023, '',鈥Nature Communications, vol. 14, 6766.  
  • Pontes-Lopes, A, Stark, SC, Smith, M, Almeida, DRA, Shao, G, Sato, L, Rinc贸n, N, Martins, GA, Goncalves, N, Ometto, JPHB, Gra莽a, P & Aragao, LEOC 2026, ', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 601, 123332. 
  • Courtney Mustaphi, C, Platts, PJ, Willcock, S, Timberlake, J, Osborne, J, Matimele, H, Osgood, H, Muiruri, V, Gehrels, M, Bayliss, J & Marchant, R 2025, ', Plants, People, Planet, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 229-244. 
  • Robinson, SJB, Elias, DMO, Goodall, T, McNamara, NP, Griffiths, R, Majalap, N, Sau Wai, Y & Ostle, NJ 2025, ', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 16, 1570294. 
  • Devenish, K, Willcock, S, Goodenough, K, Heriniaina, R, Rakotonarivo, S & Jones, JPG 2024, ', Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 5, 489. 
  • Robinson, SJB, Elias, DMO, Goodall, T, Nottingham, AT, McNamara, NP, Griffiths, RI, Majalap, N & Ostle, NJ 2024, ', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 15, pp. 1447999. 
  • , Stark, SC, Taylor, TC, Schietti, J, Almeida, DRA, Aragon, S, Torralvo, K, Lima, A, de Oliveira, G, de Assis, RL, Leitold, V, Pontes-Lopes, A, Scoles, R, de Sousa Vieira, LC, Resende, AF, Coppola, AI, Brandao, DO, Junior, JDAS, Lobato, LF, Freitas, W, Almeida, D, Souza, MS, Minor, DM, Villegas, JC, Law, DJ, Goncalves, N, da Rocha, DG, Guedes, MC, Tonini, H, da Silva, KE, van Haren, J, Rosa, DM, do Valle, DF, Cordeiro, CL, de Lima, NZ, Shao, G, Menor, IO, Conti, G, Florentino, AP, Montti, L, Aragao, LEOC, McMahon, SMM, Parker, GG, Breshears, DD, Da Costa, ACL, Magnusson, WE, Mesquita, R, Camargo, JLC, de Oliveira, RC, de Camargo, PB, Saleska, SR & Nelson, BW 2023, '',鈥Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 24-32.鈥 
  • Urquhart, J, Goodenough, A, Healey, JR & Ambrose-Oji, B 2025, ', Forestry. 
  • Jones, JPG 2024, ', Nature Ecology and Evolution. 
  • Tew, ER, Ambrose-Oji, B, Beatty, M, Buntgen, U, Butterworth, H, Clover, G, Cook, D, Dauksta, D, Day, W, Deakin, J, Field, A, Gardiner, B, Harrop, P, Healey, J, Heaton, R, Hemery, G, Hill, L, Hughes, O, Khaira-Creswell, PK, Kirby, K, Leitch, A, MacKay, J, McIlhiney, R, Murphy, B, Newton, L, Norris, D, Nugee, R, Parker, J, Petrokofsky, G, Prosser, A, Quine, C, Randhawa, G, Reid, C, Richardson, M, Ridley-Ellis, DJ, Riley, R, Roberts, JE, Schaible, R, Simpson, LE, Spake, R, Tubby, I, Urquhart, J, Wallace-Stephens, F, Wilson, JD & Sutherland, WJ 2023, ', Forestry, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 349-362.  
  • Gao, F, Gao, D, Ning, C, Liu, S, Kuzyakov, Y, Smith, A & Yan, W 2025, '', Plant and Soil. 
  • Fan, X, Zhang, Y, Shi, K, Peng, J, Liu, Y, Zhou, Y, Liu, Y, Zhu, Q, Song, C, Wan, R, Zhao, X & Woolway, RI 2024, ', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 42, pp. e2410294121. 
  • Gao, L, Smith, A, Jones, DL, Lui, B, Guo, Y, Cui, X & Hill, P 2024, , Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 
  • Lin, X, Ning, C, Liu, T, Gao, D, Smith, A, Yan, W & Liu, S 2024, , Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 
  • Gao, L, Guo, Y, Lui, B, Guo, Z, Chunnan, F, Zheng, J, Cui, X & Hill, P 2023, '',鈥Geoderma, vol. 430, no. 116319.鈥 
  • Ma, T, Li, J, Smith, A, Yan, X, Su, Y, Huo, J, Li, Y, Chen, D & Yu, H 2025, ', GIScience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, no. 1, 2565858. 
  • Su, Y, Li, J, Smith, A, Yan, X, Ma, T, Zhang, J & Chen, D 2025, ', International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 17, pp. 6377-6402. 
  • Peng, X, Jiang, S, Liu, S, Zhan, Y, Shi, Y, Ning, Y, Feng, S, Gao, H & Wang, Z 2023, '',鈥Science of the Total Environment, vol. 898, 165515.鈥
  • Yan, X, Li, J, Yang, D, Ma, T, Su, Y & Shao, J 2023, '',鈥International Journal of Digital Earth, vol. 16, no. 2, 4471-4491.鈥 

 

  • Ecke, F, Semenza, JC, Buzan, E, Costa, F, Giorgi, E, Guo, J, Kirkpatrick, L, Knauf, S, Meheretu, Y, Singh, N, Sj枚din, H, Timperley, M, Treskova, M, Ulrich, RG, Zeppelini, CG & Rockl枚v, J 2025, ', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1979-1988. 
  • Gao, L, Smith, A, Geng, B, Liu, B, Li, X, Jia, S & Jones, DL 2025, ', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 578, 122481. 
  • Gao, D, Liu, S, Gao, F, Ning, C, Wu, X, Yan, W & Smith, A 2024, ', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 909, no. 168349, 168349.  
  • Parry, J, Stokes, V & Hardaker, A 2025, ', Forestry. 
  • Plaga, B, Bauhus, J, Gonzalez Pereira, M & Forrester, D 2024, '',鈥Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, vol. 97, no. 3,  pp. 401鈥413,  
  • G贸rriz-Mifsud, E, Fern谩ndez-Blanco, CR, Wong, J & Prokofieva, I 2026, ', Small-Scale Forestry, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 37-59. 
  • Prayitno, K, Saputra, AW, Ibbett, H, Dorward, L, Trywidiarini, T, Dwiyahreni, AA, Supriatna, J & St. John, FAV 2025, , Society and Natural Resources. 
  • Spencer, K, Ingram, DJ, Namrata, A, Ardiantiono, A, Cheyne, S, Dorward, L, Abdul, K, Lo, M, Morgans, CL, Supriatna, J, Winarni, N, St. John, FAV & Struebig, M 2025, ', People and Nature. 
  • Stara, K, Tsiakiris, R, Wong, J, Healey, J, Marini Govigli, V & Halley, J 2025, , Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 260-292. 
  • Bates, S, Petrokofsky, G, Hemery, G & Dandy, N 2024, ', Forest Policy and Economics, vol. 158, 103120. 
  • Fleming, W, Rizowy, B & Shwartz, A 2024, , People and Nature, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1469-1485. 
  • Marini Govigli, V, Healey, J, Wong, J, Stara, K, Tsiakiris, R & Halley, J 2024, '.', People and Nature, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1206-1219. 
  • Morgans, CL, Jago, S, Andayani, N, Linkie, M, Lo, MGY, Mumbunan, S, St. John, FAV, Supriatna, J, Voigt, M, Winarni, N, Santika, T & Struebig, M 2024, , Conservation Letters, vol. 17, no. 3, e13010, pp. 1. 
  • O鈥橞rien, L, Marzano, M, Dandy, N, Bates, S, Hemery, G, Petrokofsky, G, Dunn, M & Forster, J 2024, ', Forests, vol. 15, no. 10, 1695. 
  • 鈥2023, '',鈥Wellbeing, Space & Society, vol. 5, 100160.鈥
  • 鈥2023, '',鈥Wellbeing, Space & Society, vol. 4, 100125.鈥
  • 鈥2023, '',鈥International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 15, 6500.鈥
  • 鈥& van Noordwijk, M 2023, '',鈥Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 65, 101363.鈥
  • Ning, Y, Liu, S, Qiu, Y, Gao, H, Yuan, W, Lu, Y, Yuan, W & Feng, S 2023, '',鈥Science of the Total Environment, vol. 863, 160705.鈥 
  • Cracknell, D, Peterken, G, Pommerening, A, Lawrence, P鈥& 鈥2023, '',鈥疛ournal of Ecology, vol. 111, no. 10, pp. 2118-2133.鈥 
  • Wu, D, Chen, Y, Ellwood, MDF, Shao, Z, Wang, Y, H. C. Cornelissen, J & Chu, C 2025, ', Journal of Ecology, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 763-777. 
  • Ziccardi, LG, Taylor, TC, Smith, MN, Gon莽alves, NB, Kramer, D, Campos, KS, Prohaska, N, Restrepo鈥怌oupe, N, Saleska, SR, Siqueira鈥怱ilva, AI, Penha, D, Gomez, R, Santos, VAHF & Stark, SC 2025, , Functional Ecology, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 3596-3610. 
  • Chen, S, Stark, SC, Nobre, AD, Cuartas, LA, Amore, DDJ, Restrepo-Coupe, N, Smith, M, Chitra-Tarak, R, Ko, H, Nelson, B & Saleska, SR 2024, ', Nature, vol. 631, pp. 111-117. 
  • Zarakas, C, Swann, ALS, Koven, C, Smith, M & Taylor, T 2024, , Global Change Biology, vol. 30, no. 9, e17449. 
  • Browne, L, Manzan茅-Pinz贸n, E, Wright, SJ, Bagchi, R, Engelbrecht, B, Jones, FA & Comita, LS 2023, '',鈥Functional Ecology, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 248-260.鈥
  • Costa, FRC, Schietti, J, Stark, SC鈥2023, '',鈥New Phytologist, vol. 237, no. 3, pp. 714-733.鈥
  • Donghao Wu, D, Seibold, S, Pietsch, K鈥& Yu, M 2023, '',鈥Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 183, 109060. 
  • Smith, C, Barlow, J, Schwartz, N, Young, P & Miranda, L 2023, '',鈥Environmental Research Letters.鈥