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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...
The report of Forest Research for the year ending March 1950. The report includes:IntroductionSummary of the year’s workPart 1: Work carried out by Forestry Commission staff:Forest tree seed investigationsExperimental work in the nurseryNursery extension experiments at Radnor forestExperiments in planting on upland heathsPlantations on peatlandsDerelict woodland investigationsProvenance studiesSpacing of oak...
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...
Consideration of soil formation and function in the urban environment where greenspace is to be established
Report on Forest Research for the year ending 31 March 1970
The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff. This thirty-fifth Journal includes...
Report on Forest Research for the year ending 31 March 1969
Culitvation methods and considerations to alleviate soil compaction at undermanaged greenspaces
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...
The ecological benefits of wildflower meadows for incorporation into urban greenspace, including links to case studies with examples of wildflower meadows for biodiversity
The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff. This nineteenth Journal includes...
Using digital X-rays to determine whether seeds are filled, empty, immature, and insect- or mechanically-damaged
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