Sophie Hale, BSc, PhD

 

Research Scientist, Forest Management Division

Email: sophie.hale@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)131 445 2176
Tel direct: +44 (0)131 445 6948
Fax: +44 (0)131 445 5124

Address:
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY
UK

Sophie Hale obtained a degree in Geography (1992) and a PhD in Ecology (1996), both from the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD was a study of forest micrometeorology as part of the BOREAS project in Canada. She joined Forest Research in 1997, where her work concentrates on different aspects of transformation to continuous cover forestry, including below-canopy light and its relationship to seedling growth, and stand stability.

Current role

Research Scientist, Forest Management Division

Current programmes

Continuous cover silviculture
Measurement and modelling of light beneath forest canopies. Development of guidance for stand management to encourage natural regeneration beneath canopies

Tree stability and climate
Modelling stability of trees in even- and uneven-structured forest stands

Research areas

• Continuous cover forestry
• Stand stability
• Forest microclimate

Main recent publications

Hale, S.E. and Brown, N. (2005). Use of the canopy-scope as a means of assessing canopy openness in plantation forests in Britain. Forestry, 78: 365-371.

Hale, S.E. (2004). Managing Light to Enable Natural Regeneration in British Conifer Forests. Information Note 63. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh. pp. 6.

Hale, S.E., Levy, P.E. and Gardiner, B. (2004). Trade-offs between seedling growth and stand stability in alternative silvicultural systems : a modelling analysis. For. Ecol. Manage. 187, 105-115.

Levy, P.E., Hale, S.E. and Nicoll, B.C. (2004). Biomass expansion factors and root:shoot ratios for coniferous tree species in Great Britain. Forestry, 77, 5, 421-430.

Mason, W.L., Edwards, C. and Hale, S.E. (2004). Survival and early seedling growth of conifers with different shade tolerance in a Sitka spruce spacing trial and relationship to understorey light climate. Silva Fennica, 38, 4, 357-370.

Hale, S.E. (2003). The effects of thinning intensity on the below-canopy light environment in a Sitka spruce plantation. For. Ecol. Manage. 179, 341-349.

Hale, S.E. and Edwards, C.E. (2002). Comparison of film and digital hemispherical photography across a wide range of canopy densities. Agric. For. Meteorol. 112, 51-56.

Hale, S.E. (2001). Light regime beneath Sitka spruce plantations in northern Britain: preliminary results. For. Ecol. Manage. 151, 1-3, 61-66.

Grant, R.F., Jarvis, P.G., Massheder, J.M., Hale, S.E., Moncrieff, J.B., Rayment, M.B., Scott, S.L. and Berry, J.A. (2001). Controls on carbon and energy exchange by a black spruce - moss ecosystem: Testing the mathematical model Ecosys with data from the BOREAS experiment. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 15, 1, 129-147.

Hale, S.E., Quine, C.P. and Suarez, J.C. (1998). Climatic conditions associated with treelines of Scots pine and birch in highland Scotland. Scot. For. 52, 2, 70-76.

Jarvis, P.G., Massheder, J.M., Hale, S.E., Moncrieff, J.B., Rayment, M.B. and Scott, S.L. (1998). Seasonal variation of carbon dioxide, water vapour, and energy exchanges of a boreal black spruce forest. J. Geophys. Res. 102, 28953-28966.