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Victoria Stokes, BSc, MSc, PhD
Project Leader, Forest Management DivisionVictoria studied Botany and Marine Botany at University of Wales, Bangor in 1997 and went on to study for an MSc in Ecology also at University of Wales, Bangor in 1998. She then completed a PhD on the annual carbon and water balance of mature oak and sycamore tree canopies at the University of Essex in 2002. She came to Forest Research in 2002 as an Environmental Physiologist initially working on Short Rotation Coppice. She now works on natural regeneration and management of Continuous Cover Silviculture and on Integrated Forest Vegetation Management. Current roleProject Leader, Forest Management Division Responsibilities include Project Leader for respacing of natural regeneration: - Establishing and managing field experiment sites and monitoring equipment
- Coordination and collation of assessment data
- Data analysis and report writing
- Knowledge transfer; maintenance of programme web pages and involvement with field meetings and workshops.
Current programmesContinuous cover silviculture
Research Scientist Integrated forest vegetation management
Research Scientist Affiliations and achievements- Member of the Institute of Chartered Forester (Level II Associate)
- Member of the British Ecological Society
- Member of the Continuous Cover Forestry Group
- Member of the Association of Applied Biologists
Research areas- Ecophysiology of advance regeneration
- Respacing and harvesting damage of natural regeneration
- Continuous Cover Forestry
- Herbicide reduction and vegetation management
- Biodegradable mulch materials
- Creation of new native woodlands by direct seeding
- Species trials for farm and community woodlands
- Short rotation coppice of poplar and willow
- Environmental physiology and plant competition
Main recent publicationsMorecroft M.D., Stokes, V.J, Taylor, M.E, Morison J.I.L. (2007). Effects of climate and management history on the distribution and growth of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) in a southern British woodland in comparison to native competitors. Forestry, Accepted Oct 2007. Willoughby, I., Stokes, V., Poole, J., White, J.E.J. and Hodge, S.J. (2007). The potential of 44 native and non-native species for woodland creation on a range of contrasting sites in lowland Britain. Forestry 80 (5), 531-533. DOI:10.1093/forestry/cpm034. Stokes, V.J. and Willoughby, I. (2007). Tolerance of trees to foliar acting herbicides. Aspects of Applied Biology 82, 91-101. Stokes, V.J., Morecroft, M.D. and Morison, J.I.L. (2006). Boundary layer conductance for contrasting leaf shapes in a deciduous broadleaved forest canopy, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 139: 40-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.05.011. Stokes, V. and Kerr, G. (2006). Relationships between growth and leaf-scale physiological parameters in five Wildstar™ cherry clones (Prunus avium L.), European Journal of Forest Research, Vol 125, No.4: 369-375. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-006-0127-5. Willoughby, I., Jinks, R.L. and Stokes, V. (2006). The tolerance of newly emerged broadleaved tree seedlings to the herbicides clopyralid, cycloxydim and metazachlor. Forestry, 79 (4): 599-608. Stokes, V. (2004).  Assessing water use in plants: an introduction and guide to methods of measurement (PDF-2109K). Scottish Forestry, Vol 58, No. 2: 13-19. Morecroft, M.D., Stokes, V.J. and Morison, J.I.L. (2003). Seasonal changes in the photosynthetic capacity of canopy oak (Quercus robur) leaves: the impact of slow development on annual carbon uptake, Int J Biometeorol, 47: 221-226. Stokes, V. J. (2002). The impact of microenvironment, leaf development and phenology on annual carbon gain and water loss of two deciduous tree species, PhD Thesis, University of Essex, 370 pp. Morecroft, M., Oliver, H., Stokes, V. and Morison, J., (2000). Sensing and mis-sensing the eclipse, Weather, Vol. 55, No. 5: 355-357.
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