Exempel på coppicing

• The slight coppicing of large branches extending into the plot prior to cropping was not enough to curb competition effects.

• In this forest, with its sparse crowns, lack of seed bank and unfavourable conditions for seedling establishment, coppicing is the main mechanism of regeneration.

• Furthermore, elephants move to foraging areas outside the park during the wet season, allowing trees to recover from dry season browsing through coppicing.

• In order to study the effects of coppicing, two strategies were undertaken.

• Post-fallow resprouts of coppicing tree species in (experiment 1) were allowed to grow in the dry season.

• It should be possible to introduce a form of coppicing whereby the sprouts of a stump can be logged again after a given time interval.

• Mortality and coppicing were also noted and the cause(s) stated if known.

• Despite the increase in damage to trees in the 1-5 m height class, the majority were in average to good condition and many damaged trees had responded by coppicing.

• Larger gaps may have brought about a more substantial change in species composition, but the relative contribution of regrowth from coppicing compared with regeneration from seed renders this unlikely.

• Even coppicing for baskets or charcoal might be a possibility.

• Studies of the financial viability of hazel coppicing indicate that, if harvested every eight years, the highest quality might produce some £9,000 per acre.

• There may be some value in the old art of coppicing for the production of biofuel from some of the smaller areas of lowland farms.

• Using it for biofuel crop production—for biodiesel, short-rotation coppicing or elephant grass to fuel combined heat and power plants—would have multiple benefits.

• Those areas are organic farming—we currently import most products—flax growing, coppicing and the growing of fuel crops.

• We agree that there is a significant future potential for the use of willow by short rotation coppicing.