One man and his log: Charles Elton’s pioneering studies of dead wood at Wytham Woods

The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is now widely accepted but forty years ago this was far from the case. However a valuable reference point then was Charles Elton’s chapter on dead wood in The Pattern of Animal Communities (1966) which states in the first sentence that ‘dying and dead woo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirby, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Forestry Society 2017