1 Current status 1.1 National 1.1.1 Urban trees can be defined as those that occur as individuals or small groups rather than in woodlands. Sites include roadsides and verges, parks, cemeteries and private gardens. 1.1.2 No national information is available on numbers, species or distribution. Trees in Towns” 1994 gives representation data status, species and… Read More »
1 Current status 1.1 National Approximately 7% (1.5 million hectares) of Great Britain is covered by conifer woodland. Ownership is evenly split between Forest Enterprise and the private sector. Stands are usually single species with some 40% being Sitka Spruce. However mixed plantations are common at the forest scale and older thinned stands often develop… Read More »
1 Current status 1.1 National Typically, lowland mixed broadleaf woodland is associated with a wide range of fertile, moist loams and clays. Lowland mixed broadleaf woodland overlaps with several other woodland types. Mixed broadleaf woodland has a maximum of 10% conifers in the tree canopy. On moderately base-poor soils oak and birch predominate in the… Read More »
1 Current status 1.1 National Lowland wood pastures and parklands are the products of historic land management systems, and represent a vegetation structure rather than a typical plant community. Their structure normally consists of large open grown high forest trees or pollards in a mix of grassland or other habitats. Wood pastures and parklands were… Read More »
1 Current status 1.1 National This habitat covers all woodland and scrub on damp substrates, including carr woodland around water bodies and in hollows, floodplain woodlands, woodland on remnant raised bogs and the drier parts of basins and valleys and woods on wet flushes. Wet woodlands are found throughout the UK. They occur mainly as… Read More »