Supervisors: Dr Ruth Mitchell (The James Hutton Institute), Dr Lorna Street (University of Edinburgh), Dr Elena Vanguelova (Forest Research) Project description Tree planting is a major part of the UK government’s plans to meet its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, recent work has shown that in the initial decades following tree planting there can be substantial losses of carbon from the soil which may be equal to or greater than the above ground gains in carbon stored as tree biomass. Recent modelling work (Matthews et al., 2020) mapped potential changes in ecosystem carbon storage following woodland creation. The study predicts that conversion from semi-natural land to woodland can result in net carbon

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