Deadwood is a vital component of a properly functioning forest ecosystem. It plays an important role in sustaining biodiversity and in delivering ecosystem services such as soil formation and nutrient cycling. In the UK up to a fifth of woodland species depend on dead or dying trees for all or part of their life cycle […]
This bulletin is an account of investigations conducted during a number of years by Dr. G. K. Fraser, of the Department of Forestry, Aberdeen University, into the establishment of timber crops on peat soils in Scotland and particularly under west coast conditions as illustrated at Inverliever on Loch Awe. The investigations recorded in this bulletin […]
The total carbon in UK forests is estimated to have increased between 1990 and 2015 (Table 4.1). The carbon in forest soils accounts for most (around 75%) of total forest carbon.
Table 4.1 Forest carbon stock
19902000200520102015
million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
Carbon in above-ground biomass
360
471
527
583
639
Carbon in below-ground biomass
129
170
190
210
230
Carbon in dead wood
9
10
10
10
10
Carbon in litter
165
175
179
182
187
Soil carbon1
2366
2533
2594
2629
2715
Total forest carbon 30293359350036143781
Source: Forestry […]
The total carbon in UK forests is estimated to have increased between 1990 and 2015 (Table 4.1). The carbon in forest soils accounts for most (around 75%) of total forest carbon.
Table 4.1 Forest carbon stock
1990
2000
2005
2010
2015
million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
Carbon in above-ground biomass
360
471
527
583
639
Carbon in below-ground biomass
129
170
190
210
230
Carbon in dead wood
9
10
10
10
10
Carbon in litter
165
175
179
182
187
Soil carbon 1
2 366
2 533
2 […]
Introduction
Forests can help mitigate climate change by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They do this by absorbing carbon dioxide, using the carbon to produce sugars for tree growth and releasing the oxygen back into the air. As trees grow, they store carbon in their leaves, twigs and trunk, and in the […]
In the spring and summer of 1952 Mr W.R. Day, Lecturer in Forest Pathology at the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, visited British Columbia. His object was to examine the forest relationships of the Sitka spruce in its natural homeland. The main purpose was to study Sitka spruce as an element in the mixed forests in […]
Forest carbon stock is the amount of carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere and is now stored within the forest ecosystem, mainly within living biomass and soil, and to a lesser extent also in dead wood and litter.
Table 4.1 presents estimates of UK forest carbon stock that were compiled in 2018 for submission […]
The ecological benefits of wildflower meadows for incorporation into urban greenspace, including links to case studies with examples of wildflower meadows for biodiversity
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