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

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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.
In recent British studies, woods managed for timber had between a third and a seventh less fallen debris than unmanaged woods that had been left undisturbed for many years, while in recently coppiced woods the amount of CWD was almost zero.