Lead Author: Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Amy Stewart, Anna Lawrence
Use of European silver fir in forestry re-assessed
Large-scale use of European silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) was discounted in the mid-twentieth century. A recent paper by Forest Research scientists Gary Kerr, Victoria Stokes, Andrew Peace and Richard Jinks in the European Journal of Forest Research challenges that assumption and, using results from 46-year-old provenance experiments, show that European silver fir is a productive species and could be deployed in British forests as a component to diversify species composition and in the wider use of continuous cover forestry.
European Journal of Forest Research (2015) DOI 10.1007/s10342-014-0856-9
Gary Kerr, Victoria Stokes, Andrew Peace and Richard Jinks