Plants associated with traditional forms of coppice management are affected by changes in, or cessation of, stand which produce differences in structure, usually the direction high forest. The habitat ground flora richness, and composition an ancient woodland southern England were compared across three distinct treatments: Coppice (the cyclical cutting underwood on rotations), Limited Intervent...

Preface: This document was prepared for the Silviculture Working Group (SWG) of the Coast Region Implementation Team (CRIT), to provide preliminary considerations for biodiversity and wildlife habitat values during their development of a discussion paper on opportunity harvesting in the Coast Forest Region. for potential inclusion as an appendix to the draft opportunity wood discussion paper.

Abstract Mountain forests in Europe have to face recently speeding-up phenomena related climate change, reflected not only by the increases mean global temperature but also frequent extreme events, that can cause a lot of various damages threatening forest stability. The crucial task management is adapt environmental uncertainties using strategies should be undertaken enhance resistance and res...