Young Brunette Girl Reveals On The Rocky Beach With Remains Of A Dead Tree

Since the 1970s, forest managers worldwide have been encouraged to allow dead trees and woody debris to remain in woodlands, recycling nutrients trapped in the wood and providing food and habitat for a wide range of organisms, thereby improving biodiversity. This natural process of woody growth, decomposition, and recycling may aid in the renewal of ancient forests.
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Natural tree mortality, disease, and insects, as well as catastrophic events such as fires and storms, are all sources of CWD. The ancient, or old growth, forest, with its dead trees and woody remains lying where they fell to feed new vegetation, constitutes the ideal woodland in terms of recycling and regeneration. In healthy temperate forests, dead wood comprises up to thirty per cent of all woody biomass.