Nick Atkinson is a Fellow at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He is also an employee of the Woodland Trust. Ash dieback – a fatal disease of Britain’s native ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) – is ...

Ash dieback is a severe disease that has substantially threatened European ash populations, particularly Fraxinus excelsior. The disease is caused by the invasive ascomycete fungus Hymenoscyphus ...

New research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology finds that ash dieback is far less severe in the isolated conditions ash is often found in, such as forests with low ash ...

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Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has ...

A council has agreed a contract that will see them spend nearly £2.2m on tree care over the next four years. The deal agreed by Somerset Council includes funding for ongoing efforts to combat ash ...

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has launched a bioscience response to ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea), a devastating fungus that threatens our third most common ...

Europe's ash dieback epidemic could well have been caused by just one or two mushroom-like fruiting bodies of a fungal pathogen from Asia, according to a comprehensive genome sequencing effort. This ...

New research finds that ash dieback is far less severe in the isolated conditions ash is often found in, such as forests with low ash density or in open canopies like hedges, suggesting the long term ...