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A few years ago I gave a lecture on coppicing which started as follows:
Coppicing is widely regarded as a conservation panacea resulting in high structural diversity and species diversity but it can also be viewed as producing a dwarf uniform even-aged biologically impoverished nutrient-depleted woodland. Which view is correct?
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Goldsmith, F.B. (1992). Coppicing — a conservation panacea?. In: Buckley, G.P. (eds) Ecology and Management of Coppice Woodlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2362-4_16
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