[500 words] Response: health & wellbeing, education We seek to establish the extent to which current practices are delivering these benefits, how far they represent good public value in the short and long term, and what more, if anything, could be done to improve public benefits in tackling the climate-nature crisis and the economic and social well-being of resident communities by tree planting, w. [...] Do you have evidence on the role tree species choice and composition have in influencing biodiversity, timber production, flood management, and other outcomes? Do the species of trees and the mix of species help, hinder or change the balance of the benefits being sought? [500 words] Response: not as yet but I am coordinating a long term soil microbe diversity project that will monitor microbial co. [...] Do you have evidence of tree planting leading to quantifiable economic and social benefits, short and long term, for communities local to the planting? [500 words] Response: not yet. [...] Evidence for (i): with <5k in grant funding I/we have developed an engagement program with the community local to the woodland (seed collection) and the local primary school for outdoor education, tree nurseries at the school and local residential centre for adults with learning difficulties, and collaborations with the UoE to use the site for training undergraduates in biodiversity surveys and a. [...] Do you have evidence that the interaction of these payments has any public benefits or disbenefits? [500 words] Response: knowledge and enthusiasm of primary school children for trees , and feelings of ownership and investment in the woodland 27.
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