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Did you know windstorms have been the primary natural disturbance affecting European forests over the past 75 years? @drtomlocatelli from @Forest_Research explains more in the latest @europeanforest article published this week ➡️ https://t.co/jcmazDjzrh

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🌳 Trees help fight #ClimateChange by capturing #Carbon from the air and storing it.

👉 Explore our new Carbon pages in the Climate Change Hub to see how you can help enhance carbon stocks and contribute to #ClimateAction.

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Building resilience in our woodlands and forests is vital to protect essential ecosystem services including carbon sequestration. The #ClimateChange Hub now includes a forestry carbon information resource with topics including wood products and new woodland establishment ⬇️

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The #ClimateChange Hub is the official home of UK forestry climate change guidance.

🌳 Our practical, evidence-based resources can help land managers navigate risks, adaptation measures and carbon considerations.

Explore the Climate Change Hub ➡ https://t.co/pTOz6AeMKP

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Climate projections can help land managers anticipate both challenges and opportunities with changing weather patterns, from drought and flooding risks to extended growing seasons.

🔎 Discover how climate projections up to 2080 inform risk and adaptation guidance in the Climate Change Hub: https://t.co/OcaUwgtnhM

👀📹➡️ https://t.co/k4IfoYcFML

#ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #LandManagement #UKWoodland

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Six key considerations for urban forest management in a changing climate are now available on the Climate Change Hub, with recommended actions➡️ https://t.co/dM81k58Jao

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How can we ensure trees continue to thrive in our towns and cities?

Urban forests play a vital role in helping reduce the impacts of extreme weather, from cooling to flood mitigation. But urban forests require climate-conscious planning and management to ensure they continue to deliver multiple benefits for generations to come.

🔎 Explore guidance on urban forest management in the Climate Change Hub: https://t.co/FXlaOmKEaV

#UrbanForests #ClimateAdaptation #Forestry #ClimateChange

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An important addition to our bite-size climate change factsheet series, now totalling 18. Explore topics from biodiversity and forest carbon to tree species and ecosystem services: https://t.co/FgJNXlezUz

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🌍🌳 Climate change projections indicate more frequent extreme weather events, such as storms, heatwaves, droughts and floods.

One of the likely consequences of this will be an abundance of stressed trees with weakened defences against pests, creating favourable conditions for some species of bark beetle.

📖 Our latest factsheet explores how a changing climate is influencing bark-boring insects and what it could mean for UK woodlands 🔗 https://t.co/v1nLuAZ8WY

#ClimateChange #TreeHealth #BarkBeetle

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We value feedback from the forestry sector to inform our climate research and address your challenges. Get involved today by having your say about woodland resilience in the #BritishWoodlandsSurvey and completing our mixed species survey➡️ https://t.co/ERQHw18Pn3

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Share your experiences of mixed species planting to help inform our cutting-edge research trials and shape future UK forestry adaptation guidance - new survey out today!

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🌳🌲Do you have experience in growing mixed-species stands?

If so, please complete our survey to inform new mixed-species trials and improve our understanding of drought resilience. Your insights will help us shape future recommendations for policy and practice.

👉 Complete survey: https://t.co/jMUhbOIFMA

Read more about the project: https://t.co/KlwWpcVNOi

#DroughtResilience #ForestManagement #ForestResearch

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Great to see the @aliceholtforest Adaptation Trail featured in recent BBC #climatechange coverage, demonstrating a range of #adaptation measures in a typical southeast woodland.

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This week, Dr Gail Atkinson, Head of Climate Science spoke to the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt, about how our trees, woodlands and forests are being impacted by climate change

Find out more: https://t.co/1bOmbZpWwQ

#ClimateChange #ForestResearch @ForestryComm

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Wind risk experts @BruceNicoll1 and @drtomlocatelli discuss threats to UK forests and how the #ForestGALES decision support tool can help managers assess vulnerability to storm damage⬇️

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🍃 With climate change leading to increased frequency of storms and winter rainfall, forests face growing threats like windthrow – uprooted trees – which causes timber loss and disruption

💡 Watch our new video to hear about strategies to help mitigate windthrow, including using ForestGALES, a tool that aids the prediction and management of wind risk.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/iYelPDoMgt

#Forestry #Windthrow #ClimateChange #StormDamage #ForestManagement

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It's your final opportunity to participate in our short survey about the #ClimateChangeHub, which closes 31 Jan! Your views are important as we continue to develop climate change guidance and resources. Access the survey here: https://t.co/3hxunrwQtQ

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❔ We are looking to understand the Climate Change Hub’s impact to date to help ensure the development of new resources continues to meet the needs of woodland mangers and advisors. 🌲📑 The Climate Change Hub centralises information and practical guidance about protecting our woodlands and forests from the impacts and risks due to the changing climate.

How can you help?
✨𝗕𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 (𝟴-𝟭𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲): https://t.co/MIObauWv5R - open until 31 Jan.
✨𝗕𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀: 𝟮𝟵 𝗝𝗮𝗻, 𝟭𝟲.𝟭𝟱 - 𝟭𝟳.𝟯𝟬 - Managers and owners of woods and forests: https://t.co/zQEBpjEDyU𝟯𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗻, 𝟭𝟮.𝟰𝟱 – 𝟭𝟰.𝟬𝟬 - Advisors, e.g., consultants, agents, woodland officers, public bodies, trade, professional and intermediary organisations: https://t.co/EOJeuz6rGW

#ClimateChangeHub #Survey @ForestryComm

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🌳 Landowners, woodland managers, and forestry advisors - we need your input to shape the future of our online Climate Change Hub.

This impact assessment survey only takes 8-10 minutes to complete and is open until 31 January 2025: https://t.co/aJIyDlYl7d

#ClimateChangeHub #UKWoodlands #ForestResearch

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Thanks to @drmikeperksFR, @DrGeorgeXenakis, @Salvo_Bonomo_ and Suzanne Robinson for sharing their work. You can find our current drought guidance here: https://t.co/qCIA1XzgkH

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Discover some of the cutting-edge work by climate scientists at @Forest_Research to improve our understanding of drought and inform policy and practitioner guidance. Watch the video in full: https://t.co/XLwc1DsVcT

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Climate projections show an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme events in the UK, such as storms, flooding & droughts. We discuss the risk of drought to our woodlands and how future drought impacts can be reduced through adaptive management: https://t.co/qCIA1XzgkH

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Would you like to help us understand the impact of the @Forest_Research #ClimateChangeHub and inform our future plans? If so, our social scientists would love you to respond to our survey and attend an online focus group next week. Find out more: https://t.co/DKPGK7H8Ew

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Do you have a biosecurity action plan in place to protect your woodland from the spread of tree pests and pathogens and increase resilience?

Biosecurity guidance, created in collaboration with the @ForestryComm, is now available on our Climate Change Hub.

🔗 https://t.co/7KUXvzE4tt

#ForestResearch | #Biosecurity

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Warmer temperatures enable some insects to produce more generations each year and can facilitate the establishment of non-native species through trade and imports. Find out how implementing biosecurity measures can help increase woodland resilience: https://t.co/9qA9Iyrx9D

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Did you know you can now filter our 12 #adaptation case studies on the #ClimateChangeHub by climate change risk or by management objective? ➡️https://t.co/3U7cDJw3kS