Wistman’s Wood, Dartmoor National Park, UK.
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Only fragments of Britain’s “temperate rainforest” remain – here’s some tips to help you identify one when you come across it.
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Just 2.5% of the country has been continuously wooded for centuries.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
“Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?”
A mast year can be a squirrel’s dream come true.
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Masting is what biologists call the pattern of trees for miles around synchronizing to all produce lots of seeds − or very few. Why and how do they get on schedule?
Scottish beeches – the slowest invasion in history?
Angus Clyne
Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.