Climate Change and Planting for the Future
Date posted: 10 September 2008 - Permalink / Shortlink
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 10–12 September 2008
Presentations
Welcome and introduction
Matthew Jebb, PlantNetwork Chairman John Weir, Director, The National Arboretum at Westonbirt
Forests and climate change: a convenient truth?
A DVD to set the scene
Climate change, trees and the future
Mark Broadmeadow, Forestry Commission
UKCIP08 climate scenarios - what they mean
Chris West, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Climate change: certainties and uncertainties, regional effects and extreme events
Kathy Maskell, Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading
Phenology at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for the past 150 years
Clare Morter & Christine Thompson, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems in Ireland
Alison Donnelly, Trinity College Dublin
Phenological change in the UK and further afield
Tim Sparks, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Monk's Wood
Kew's experience with climate change
Nigel Taylor, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Boom and bust, flood and drought - it's a hard life being a garden plant
Ross Cameron, Environmental Biology, University of Reading
New creative opportunities for planting on buildings: green roofs and living walls
Nigel Dunnett, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
Urban greenspace and climate change
Roland Ennos, University of Manchester
Effect of climate change on decomposer and mycorrhizal fungi
Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University
Horizon scanning for potentially invasive non-native plants
Ruth Waters, Natural England
Climate change: new ecology and planting opportunities
James Hitchmough, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
Tree collections and climate change: taking stock
Richard Jinks, Forest Research, Alice Holt
Visit to the National Arboretum at Westonbirt
John Weir, Hugh Angus, Simon Toomer & Richard Jinks, Forestry Commission A tour of the National Arboretum will give an introduction to Westonbirt and cover some of the main activities. The main focus will be to stimulate discussion on climate-change issues such as analysis of plant collections, potential pests and diseases, historic landscapes, species selection and how we might mitigate the effects of climate change.
Planting for the long-term: climate change and National Trust gardens
Mike Calnan, Gardens & Landscape, National Trust
Adapting planting at Royal Horticultural Society gardens
Christopher Bailes, RHS Garden Rosemoor
Tolerant turf: grass species for practical solutions to the changing climate
Jayne Leyland, UK Research & Development Manager, Barenbrug UK Limited
Adapting alpine and woodland plantings at Kew
Katie Price, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Exotic pests and diseases likely to flourish or be encountered with climate change
Ray Cannon & Helen Moran, Central Science Laboratory
Will our gardens become reserves for species threatened by climate change?
Alastair Culham, University of Reading
Rare and ornamental trees: some candidates for planting
Owen Johnson, Tree Register of the British Isles
