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The arguments and proposals put forward below stem from 15 years of management of the 16 ha West Dean Woods Nature Reserve in west Sussex. This reserve is an ancient woodland and a Site of Special Scientific Interest designated by the Nature Conservancy Council, representing just 7% of the area of coppice or coppice with standards present in the parish of West Dean in 1950. The Reserve consists predominantly of hazel (Corylus avellana) coppice with a little sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) overstood by widely-spaced oak standards (Quercus robur) with a canopy cover of about 20%. Regular coppicing on this site took place until about 45 years ago; after that silvicultural management was neglected until nature reserve management took over. Currently one hectare per annum of underwood is coppiced on an 11-year cycle.
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Tittensor, A.M. and Tittensor, R.M. (1985) The rabbit warren at West Dean near Chichester.Sussex Archaeological Collections 123 151–85.
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Booker, J., Tittensor, R. (1992). Coppicing for nature conservation — the practical reality. In: Buckley, G.P. (eds) Ecology and Management of Coppice Woodlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2362-4_15
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