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.
“Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?”
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?
Scientists still rely on a set of 19th century postulates to identify disease-causing organisms but more than 100 years of research shows why we need to move on.
Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.
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Professor of Plant Ecology, University of Stirling
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Professor of Forest Sciences, Bangor University
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Assistant Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced
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Ecologist and Ornithologist at UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Senior Research Associate in Zoology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral Research Officer, Bangor University