In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire
and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry
Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops
naturally. Since then, in a unique long-term study, individual
trees and shrubs have been recorded at intervals, accumulating a
detailed record of more than 20,000 individual beech, sessile oak,
ash, wych elm, small-leaved lime, large-leaved lime, birch, hazel,
yew and other species. In the seven decades since the study
started, the wood has changed; trees grew, died and regenerated,
and drought, disease and other events shaped its destiny. Each tree
and shrub species reacted in its own way to changes in the wood as
a whole and to changes in the fortunes of its neighbours.
Meanwhile, the wild fauna, flora and fungi also responded, leaving
the wood richer in some groups but poorer in others. In this
landmark book, beautifully illustrated throughout, George Peterken
and Edward Mountford, summarise the ongoing results of the Lady
Park Wood study, highlighting its unique place in nature
conservation and its significance to ecology in general. It also
builds on experience at Lady Park Wood and elsewhere to discuss in
particular: the role and maintenance of long-term ecological
studies; the concept and form of natural woodland; the role of
minimum-intervention policies in woodland nature conservation;
near-to-nature forestry; and the desirability and practicalities of
re-wilding woodlands.
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