Dr. Matthew Saunders
Assistant Professor, Botany

Projects

• Title
  • Smart observations of management impacts on peatland function.
• Summary
  • The primary objective of this project is to develop an inter-disciplinary approach to assess the impact of anthropogenic management of peatlands, through drainage and land use conversion, on carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. This project will utilise high-resolution hyperspectral and Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite based imagery to identify peatland land use and drainage extent, and combine this information with land-atmosphere and fluvial C/GHG emission measurements to derive a habitat condition and peatland drainage map that can be aligned to a GHG emission factor.
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency
• Date From
  • 2019
• Date To
  • 2023

• Title
  • Terrain Artificial Intelligence (Terrain-AI)
• Summary
  • Population growth, demographic shifts, climate change and the need for increased food production are placing new and increased pressures and demands on our natural resources, highlighting the need for adopting more sustainable life-styles. Now, more than ever, we need high-quality, timely information about our farms, forests, natural wetlands and cities in order to better understand the interdependencies and interactions between the human activities and natural processes that create these complex environments. Terrain-AI will tackle this challenge through the innovative fusion of multi-thematic data-sources captured from spaceborne satellites, aerial/drone platforms, in-field instruments, in-situ sensor networks and mobile devices with existing databases, on land use and population, using highly automated Machine Learning workflows to extract terrestrial features, patterns and processes " essential to understanding and managing these environments. Integrated land-surface models, capable of handling uncertainty, will utilise these AI outputs together with land-cover type, biomass and environmental variables to produce improved estimates of Carbon Stocks and Exchanges. The big research opportunity here is building a state-of-the-art digital terrestrial monitoring and modelling platform based on Terrain-AI"s 14 instrumented real-world test-sites together with the latest Earth Observation, Robotics and Sensing technologies that will enable the collaborative research and development of scalable ML and integrated modelling workflows with a team of over 45 dedicated research specialists. There are big commercial and societal opportunities including, developing next generation digital Agri-tech products and services through to making real changes in how we manage Carbon on our farms, forests, peatlands and urban spaces, in support of sustainable land use.
• Funding Agency
  • Science Foundation Ireland/Microsoft
• Date From
  • 01/01/2021
• Date To
  • 31/01/2023

• Title
  • Evaluating land-use and land management impacts on soil organic carbon in Irish agricultural systems.
• Summary
  • Agriculture contributes over one-third of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with the majority arising from livestock production. Both Food Wise 2025 and Origin Green initiatives aim to simultaneously increase agricultural production, whilst also reducing the carbon footprint and enhancing sustainability associated with that production. Conversely EU Climate and Energy Framework targets require a 30% reduction in emissions. Carbon (C) sequestration associated with pastures and improved grassland management could provide a mitigation option without impacting on agricultural production. In addition, improved soil carbon should lead to better nutrient cycling and soil nutrient availability. More accurate quantification of C sequestration in grasslands is essential to allow reporting to Tier 2 and 3 levels and to provide information that allows for both effective reduction and mitigation of C emissions at both the field and national level. Management practices that can increase SOC stocks to mitigate climate change will provide the basis for inclusion of grassland soils into both carbon trading schemes and LCA's, which will assist the sector both in terms of carbon credits and a reduced carbon footprint on agricultural produce. This project will integrate with various other projects quantifying and/or modelling C and nitrogen (N) processes to provide costed toolkit of potential management of C associated with grasslands.
• Funding Agency
  • Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
• Date From
  • 2018
• Date To
  • 2022

• Title
  • Investigating the carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of raised bog ecosystems.
• Summary
  • Peatlands are distinctive ecosystems that develop at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic biospheres, they cover only between 2-6% of the earth's surface but play a significant role in global carbon (C), water and greenhouse gas (GHG) dynamics1,2. These ecosystems store approximately 15 x 102 Pg of C representing ~33% of the global soil C pool1,3, and contribute up to 30% of the global methane (CH4) emissions4, which has a global warming potential 26 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year timeframe. In Ireland, peatlands cover between 14-20% of the land area and sequester an estimated 72,000 t C yr-1, however much of this area has been modified by anthropogenic activities such as extraction for energy, horticulture or domestic purposes or through drainage for agriculture or forestry5. Such land management activities have significant implications for the C sequestration potential and GHG dynamics of these ecosystems, and the restoration of degraded areas is required to enhance the C sink strength of these ecosystems and further offset national GHG emissions. Of particular national significance is the occurrence of peat-forming raised bogs, such as Clara Bog, Co Offaly, an annex II habitat under the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), which while degraded is one of the best examples of active raised bog in Western Europe. Restoration activities are currently underway at Clara as part of a NPWS EU-funded LIFE project, and this project will enhance this work by investigating the impacts of peatland restoration on the C and GHG dynamics of this ecosystem.
• Funding Agency
  • TCD
• Date From
  • 2018
• Date To
  • 2022

• Title
  • Manipulation and Integration of Nitrogen Emissions
• Summary
  • Nitrous oxide emissions comprise over one-third of all agricultural emissions, with the majority arising from livestock production. Both Food Wise 2025 and Origin Green initiatives aim to simultaneously increase agricultural production, whilst also reducing the carbon footprint and enhancing sustainability associated with that production. Conversely EU Climate and Energy Package targets require reductions in absolute emissions. Current nitrous oxide mitigation research attempts to reduce N2O emissions via various means which may increase other reactive N losses (from leached N or ammonia volatilisation). Converting excess soil N to N2 (via the process of total and co-denitrification) offers the prospect of diverting excess N away from environmentally damaging N forms (N2O, NH3, NO3-) to environmentally benign N2. In addition, most N2O research is principally focussed on manipulation at the plot scale, with little or no temporal or spatial verification of measures. This makes verifying the carbon and nitrogen footprint of farms use default emission factors difficult, with no empirical verification of these emissions.
• Funding Agency
  • Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
• Date From
  • 2018
• Date To
  • 2022

• Title
  • Supporting EU-African Cooperation on Research Infrastructures for Food Security and Greenhouse Gas Observations
• Summary
  • African societies face growing global change risks, with rapidly changing patterns of human settlements and intensity of use of ecosystem services. At the same time, climate variability and climate change trends are intensifying stress on the ecosystems that ensure environmental security, both locally (e.g. ecosystem services), regionally (e.g. sustainable development options) and internationally (e.g. carbon sequestration). Approaches that can address this challenge in an integrated and multidisciplinary way are urgently needed in many places in Africa where there is a close relationship between societal well-being and environmental condition, relating particularly to biomass for energy and food production, and hydrological considerations such as water yields. Policymakers and land-use decision makers are increasingly dependent on knowledge on the state of the environment. Long-term observational systems and research infrastructures have been identified to be indispensable elements of knowledge generation to serve climate change adaptation, food security, and climate change mitigation. This proposal supports EU-African cooperation on research infrastructures. Its aims are to increase coherence and interoperability between infrastructures in Europe and Africa, to enhance technical competence, science awareness and lifelong learning in Africa in order to facilitate the use of research results for evidence-based policy making, and to identify knowledge gaps for future research directions.
• Funding Agency
  • EU Horizon 2020
• Date From
  • 2017
• Date To
  • 2020

• Title
  • Soil organic carbon and land use mapping
• Summary
  • The primary objective of this project is to develop a spatially integrated soils and land use dataset for Ireland that will be used to provide:  robust estimates of reference SOC stocks  an enhanced methodology to report SOC carbon stock changes  a better process-based understanding of the influence of land use, management and climate on SOC stocks, CSC and GHG dynamics  the capability to inform Tier 2 reporting activities and land-based mitigation methodologies  the development of robust uncertainty analysis in the national GHG inventory for SOC stock changes and GHG emissions associated with LULUCF
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency
• Date From
  • 2017
• Date To
  • 2020

• Title
  • Peatland properties influencing greenhouse gas emissions and removals
• Summary
  • Peatlands have played an important role in climate regulation over the past 10,000 years. Pristine peatlands in Ireland are currently a small C sink (absorbing CO2 while emitting CH4) but represent less than 20% of the current national resource. Anthropogenic disturbances, mainly in the form of drainage (for agriculture and forestry) and peat extraction result in increased CO2 and N2O emissions, and reduced CH4 emissions. There are two options for mitigating GHG emissions from peatlands: avoiding new or recurrent drainage and reducing emissions on the existing drained areas. Climate policy instruments involving mitigation on peat soils are not being implemented in Ireland due to lack of basic information on the peatland resource and in particular its properties. This knowledge gap should be addressed in order to fully quantify the role of human activities on the climate footprint of Irish peatlands. Therefore the main objective of this project is to carry out a nationwide survey to document the properties of various types of peatlands and peat soils, how they are affected by various management options and how this influences the C and GHG dynamics of these systems, thereby quantifying the role of human activities on the climate footprint of Irish peatlands.
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency
• Date From
  • 2017
• Date To
  • 2020

• Title
  • Analysis of grasslands and associated management practices and potential impact on GHG emissions and removals
• Summary
  • Under the EU Effort Sharing Decision (Decision No 406/2009/EC), Ireland's 2020 target is to achieve a 20% reduction in GHG emissions. Ireland reports annually on GHG inventories (Decision 13/CP.9) which include estimates of carbon gain or release from LULUCF categories. While the LULUCF categories have different characteristics in terms of carbon stocks, potential GHG emissions and removals, existing methodologies have been shown to underestimate carbon sinks from grasslands. Grassland represents the dominant land use category in Ireland and can act as a source or a sink of carbon depending on the land management practice in situ. Insufficient data exists at present to evaluate impacts of changes in the spatial extent and associated management of grassland systems on GHG emissions and removals within the LULUCF sector.
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency
• Date From
  • 2016
• Date To
  • 2018

• Title
  • Quantification of the impact of agricultural management on the carbon balance from organic and organo-mineral soils
• Summary
  • National and EU Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets pose considerable challenges for Irish agriculture. Reducing soil-based CO2 emissions from organic soils is a key measure in the national Climate Action Plan and offers the potential to reduce emissions whilst maintaining productivity. Agricultural soils are currently reported as a net source of carbon emissions due to the drainage of peat soils for agricultural use. Rewetting drained peat soils provide an opportunity to reduce emissions and protect our largest carbon sink, with over 1 billion tonnes carbon stored in these soils. Enhancing C sequestration also offers value for money, with abatement from organic soils representing potential C credit savings ranging from €109M to €327M over the reporting period 2021-30 (based on costs of €25-€75 per tonne CO2). However there are large uncertainties around the magnitude of emissions associated with both drainage depth (shallow and deep drains) and the nutrient status (nutrient rich versus nutrient poor) of these soils. Therefore national data are required to better quantify soil carbon emissions and sinks from agricultural land, enable mitigation measures to increase carbon sequestration to be included in the national inventory and enable Ireland to benefit from the 2018 EU Effort Sharing Regulation. .
• Funding Agency
  • Teagasc Walsh Scholarship
• Date From
  • 2021
• Date To
  • 2025

• Title
  • Adaptation, mitigation and protection strategies to increase resilience of Irish forests to address the impacts of climate change
• Summary
  • Resilience is a measure of how a forest responds to a perturbation, and how quickly it can recover to its ideal state. In the face of changing climate, and increased threat from pests and pathogens, building the resilience of forest ecosystems is vital to protecting the ecosystem services they deliver. The research proposal ADAPTForRes addresses three measures (pillars) aim at increasing resilience: 1-Forest Genetic Options, 2- Forest Management Practices and 3-Forest protection measures. Each pillar has a number of tasks, with associated objectives, and tasks are conducted by national experts in their field of research that contribute to pillar goals. The main aim of pillar 1, is to assess whether the current range of forest reproductive material (FRM) is suitably adapted for climate change and whether additional FRM has potential to assist adaption, while maintaining sustainable production or conservation goals. Pillar 2, aims to conduct research into forest management options for minimizing the impacts of climate change through enhanced mitigation (assessment of afforestation options). It will also evaluate the potential of using diverse and adaptive sustainable forest management practices which may offer the potential to increase the resilience of Irish forests. Such practices may have potential to minimise risk of carbon loss from existing forest stocks owing to the expected increasing frequency of natural disturbance. Pillar 3, will conduct research in forest protection, including a global horizon scanning and pest risk assessment of key forest species, and examine the potential of an innovative riskbased surveillance network (using sentinel sites). to detect and track the progression of pathogens in Irish forests. There is provision for the development of an authenticated reference pest collection for assisting plant health regulations. Taken together the research has significant impact to contribute to increasing resilience in Irish forests and reducing the uncertainty associated with climate change.
• Funding Agency
  • DAFM
• Date From
  • 01/11/2021
• Date To
  • 31/10/2025

• Title
  • Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and Data research Infrastructure
• Summary
  • The project ?Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and Data research Infrastructure? aims to provide concepts for developing the best available science and science-based services in Africa that are needed to sharpen our common action on climate change as outlined in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 13 ?Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts?. The concepts we want to provide aim at improving the knowledge base on climate change in Africa and developing the tools to combat the negative consequences of it. This basic objective shall be achieved by a consortium that combines partners from Africa and Europe but also combines diverse experiences, backgrounds and viewpoints. The common goal is to provide a comprehensive concept that supports the important societal role of research outlined above by co-designing research capacities for climate change observation with societal demands and expectations, in our case called ?climate services? and to pave the way for their implementation. The specific objectives of the proposed project are: ? A comprehensive design for a pan-African climate observation system developed on the basis of climate services as guiding design principle. This shall be rooted in a comprehensive documentation of past and existing observing capability, contrasted with scientifically justified requirements to identify the gaps. ? A broad information network as basis for a successful and sustainable cooperation that connects infrastructure operators, scientists, data and knowledge users, a community of practice in climate services, agencies and funding bodies. This will be achieved by a dense networking and knowledge exchange approach connecting to all important players on the global, continental, national, and local level. ? A solid strategy for implementation and usage in close connection to future actors and users.
• Funding Agency
  • Horizon Europe
• Date From
  • 01/09/2022
• Date To
  • 31/08/2025

• Title
  • Characterising Organic and Inorganic Carbon Sequestration associated with Soil Amendments
• Funding Agency
  • Teagasc Walsh Scholarships
• Date From
  • 01/09/2022
• Date To
  • 31/08/2026

• Title
  • Assessing the role of multispecies GRAssland swarDs on clImatE mitigatioN, water quality and productiviTy in Ireland (GRADIENT)
• Summary
  • Agriculture dominates the Irish landscape, with ~60% of the total land area devoted to grass-based agriculture for beef and dairy production. However, this type of land use has significant environmental implications, as the agricultural sector accounts for ~30% of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and can have negative impacts on both surface and groundwater quality. These systems provide food for a growing population but need to rapidly develop more sustainable approaches in order to move towards carbon neutrality and to meet emission reduction targets and water quality legislation. Coupled with this there, is a requirement to better understand the carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of these ecosystems, to determine the drivers of emissions and how these change with variations in management and climate. This project will assess how alternative planting mixtures and management interventions can reduce gaseous and aquatic emissions of carbon and nitrogen and further our understanding of the drivers and spatio-temporal variability in emissions. This work will then directly contribute to enhancing the sustainability of grassland production in Ireland.
• Funding Agency
  • Science Foundation Ireland
• Date From
  • 01/01/2023
• Date To
  • 31/12/2027

• Title
  • Improving methodologies for reporting and verifying terrestrial CO2 removals and emissions from Irish PEATlands (CO2PEAT)
• Summary
  • Peatlands are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems with accumulated dead organic material resulting from anaerobic conditions due to inundation leading to consistently high water tables 1,2. They represent one of the most important terrestrial carbon (C) sinks globally, storing one third of soil C, despite only covering c. 3% of total land-surface 3. In Ireland, peatlands have been present in the landscape since the last Ice Age, and currently occupy up to 20% of the country"s land area 4, and they account for between 53-75% of the total Irish soil organic C stocks 5,6. As such, Irish peatlands are important both nationally and internationally7 in the provision of key ecosystem services such as climate mitigation. However, much of the peatland area in Ireland (>80%) has been influenced through anthropogenic management through the drainage of these systems and either conversion to forestry or agriculture, or extraction for energy or horticultural purposes7. Accurate estimates of the impact of land-use/management and drainage on the hydrology, ecology and biogeochemistry of peatland ecosystems in Ireland are required to provide a research-basis for policy decisions that will validate the actions outlined in the National Climate Action plan and to enable the conservation of these ecosystems to sequester C in future. For example, restoring degraded peatlands represents one of the key ways 8 to achieve the net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions target by 20509. There are a number of historic and current research projects that have/are investigating the impact of peatland use and rehabilitation on the hydrology, ecology and biodiversity status of these systems (CelticFlux, Bogland, EcoMetrics, SmartBog, CarePeat, Agri-SOC, iHabimap, Auger, Swamp, Terrain-AI), and information from these projects is important to better inform the implementation, impacts and monitoring requirements of key peatland rehabilitation plans, such as the enhanced restoration of candidate cut-over/cut-away peatland in the EU LIFE IP Peatlands & People project, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Peatlands Restoration Programme (PRP), and the Bord na Mona (BnM) EDRRS activities in Ireland.
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency

• Title
  • Assessing Peatland Emissions of Nitrous Oxide (ASPEN)
• Summary
  • Peatland ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services (water quality, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, cultural and recreational) and represent a vital nature based climate mitigation solution. Globally these ecosystems cover approximately 3% of the land area and store over 30% of the soil based carbon (C) stocks, while in Ireland these figures increase to ~20% and up to 75% respectively1,2. However, over 80% of the peatlands in Ireland have been drained for industrial extraction or have been converted to forestry or agriculture. This has significant implications for the climate mitigation potential of these systems, as lowering the water table allows for the development of an aerobic layer in the peat substrate leading to an increase in rates of oxidation and emission of the carbon stored as carbon dioxide (CO2)3, with the agricultural use of peatlands for grass based production representing a significant emission source, with >8 Mt CO2-eq emitted annually4. Furthermore, the drainage of peatlands can increase nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions due to enhanced oxygen and nitrogen availability, with drained northern peatlands estimated to emit between 30-100 Gg N2O-N per year5. This project aims to assess the impact of peatland management on N2O production and emission, which represents an understudied area in peatland greenhouse gas (GHG) dynamics6. This work will engage with the national and international stakeholders in this area (policy, national emissions inventory team, academic, wetland community groups, farmers) to collate all relevant information available from relevant national research projects (e.g. BOGLAND, AUGER, A framework for the restoration of degraded peatlands, EcoMetrics, SmartBog, SWAMP, CarePeat, AGRI-SOC, Agricultural Catchment Programme) and data from other relevant studies on northern peatlands, on rates of N2O emission and the key proxies that drive emissions. This will provide a foundation to assess the current state of understanding, identify key knowledge gaps and engage new measurement programmes to address these. Building on this, work will be undertaken to enhance the knowledge available by measuring the soil-atmosphere N2O emissions from a wide range of peatland sites in Ireland. These may include near-natural sites (representing baseline emissions), industrial extraction sites undergoing enhanced and natural rehabilitation, drained agricultural sites subject to rewetting and peatland converted to forestry. By strategically selecting the measurement sites this work will align with, and contribute to activities in the EPA funded SmartBog project, the SFI/Microsoft funded Terrain-AI project, the National Soil Carbon Observatory, the other EPA research fellows working on CO2 and methane (CH4) and the EPA funded Wet-Peat project respectively. The sites will be characterised to assess the influence of key proxy variables on rates of emission (water table height, nutrient status, bulk density, peat degradation, C:N ratio, pH) and this information will be used to develop site-specific emission factors. The work will also asses the spatial and temporal variability in emissions, which can be then be linked to a geo-spatial framework (e.g. SmartBog, other EPA research fellows (CH4/CO2) and T-AI) to enable wider upscaling. This work will also provide input data required for the validation and calibration of the DNDC/DNDC-Wetland model and will build on current modelling activities using ECOSSE and CoupModel (AUGER, SmartBog), which will be used to assess the influence of management (rehabilitation/rewetting) and climatic variability on emission dynamics, in addition to aiding with spatial upscaling of emissions. The primary research activities associated with this project will therefore provide activity data to refine the use of Tier I emission factors (EFs) for N2O emissions associated with cutaway and drained peatlands (FOS).
• Funding Agency
  • Environmental Protection Agency

• Title
  • Modelling and measuring agricultural management on peat soils to enhance removals and sequestration of carbon
• Summary
  • Ireland and New Zealand aim to at least halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and reach net zero carbon by 2050. A significant contribution common to both countries national GHG estimates comes from grassland over drained organic (peat) soils with upper estimates of approximately 9Mt CO2eq and 5.4Mt CO2eq for Ireland and NZ, respectively. These large and uncertain estimates are derived from the application of default IPCC tier 1 emission factors (EFs) to 335,000ha and 167,800ha of peat soils assumed as 100% deep drained grassland for agricultural use. The latest research in Ireland and NZ addresses some key uncertainties around the area of peat soil, drainage depth, nutrient status and lack of national specific EFs associated with these large estimates. This project aims to assess the use of process- based models (e.g. ECOSSE & DNDC) to predict carbon emissions from agriculturally used peat soils, parameterising them to reflect the peat characteristics and range of management intensities representative of both countries.
• Funding Agency
  • Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
• Date From
  • 01/02/2024
• Date To
  • 21/01/2028

• Title
  • Carbon sequestration from Agricultural soils from different Land-uses, Managements and Soil types
• Summary
  • The 2021 Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act sets out in law Ireland"s commitment to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030 and achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The sectoral emissions targets set by the Government in 2022 include a 25% reduction (5.75 Mt CO2e) in emissions from the Agriculture sector. In the Irish inventory, the largest Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) emissions source is grassland which emitted 7.6 Mt CO2eq in 2021. The 3.9 million hectares of grassland on mineral soils were estimated in the national inventory to sequester c. 2 Mt CO2eq. However, there was also approx. 337,000 hectares of managed pasture on drained peat soils which were calculated to emit c. 9.6 Mt CO2eq. These values are derived from Tier 1 default emission factors by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and thus represents a large uncertainty on what the actual emission and sink potential of Irish agricultural soils are. Therefore, there is a necessity for measured CO2 flux data and measured soil organic carbon (SOC) stock data from different soil types, managements and land-uses. The aims of this project are to quantify the effect of soils (mineral and peat), management (grazing intensities and sward composition) and land-use (grassland and cropland) on carbon sequestration. The project will use an ensemble of techniques including eddy covariance to measure ecosystem scale fluxes of CO2 and CH4 which in combination with management, soil carbon stocks and biomass data will allow the construction of ecosystem scale carbon balances.
• Funding Agency
  • Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine
• Date From
  • 01/07/2024
• Date To
  • 30/06/2024

• Title
  • Management of peatland forests for climate, biodiversity and water quality
• Summary
  • Forests have a key role to play in mitigating climate change. This needs to be balanced against the need to deliver a range of social, economic, and environmental services. 38% of Ireland's forests are on peat and there is an urgent need for empirical data on carbon dynamics on greenhouse gas exchange to support national climate policy, international reporting requirements, and the identification of sustainable emission reduction pathways. Alongside these challenges is the need to identify alternative management options for peatland forests that improve their sustainability. PeatFor addresses these challenges through a set of complementary Tasks that will set up a series of field experiments to assess carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas exchange, impacts of forest management interventions, including rewetting, on biodiversity. The results of these field investigations will be combined in a modelling framework to assess the current and future sustainability of peatland forest. In addition to supporting climate and biodiversity policy, PeatFor will train five PhD level scientists and one Post-Doctoral scientist. These scientists will be trained in state-of-the-art techniques that will provide them with the skills to support the continued and evolving need for interdisciplinary scientific research to support the multiple aims of sustainable forest management and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Funding Agency
  • Department of the Environment Food and the Marine
• Date From
  • 01/08/2024
• Date To
  • 31/07/2029