UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology July 22, 2021 Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened Richard K Broughton, University of Oxford “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. Editor77/Shutterstock.com November 15, 2019 Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year Emily Moran, University of California, Merced 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 August 2, 2017 Trying to keep nature the same is a fool’s errand – we should embrace change Alistair Jump, University of Stirling Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.