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Tag Archives: wood
Exotic trees
Lewis at woodlands.co.uk tells us about the exotic (alien) trees which are familiar in our British landscapes. Lewis tells us how many of these trees arrived during colonial times when great houses and gardens were built. He doesn’t mention how … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged alien species, arboriculture, disease, disease reservoir, ecosystem, forest, garden, hedge, history, human, invasive species, landscape, native species, naturalised species, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, sugar cane, tree, wood, woodland
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Forests and insects for food security
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has recently brought attention to two neglected areas of food security: forests and insects. On the 13th to 15th May 2013 the…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged agroforestry, arthropod, conservation, crop, entomoculture, entomophagy, fibre, food, food security, foraging, forest, hunting, insect, knowledge, neglected crop, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, poverty, textile, tree, wild food, wood, woodland
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To manage or not to manage
Posted in ecology
Tagged conservation, ecosystem, forest, forestry, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, tree, wood, woodland
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See CITES Save
Originally posted on Organikos:
Loading rosewood timber on trucks at the port of Toamasina (Tamatave), Madagascar. Photograph: Babelon Pierre-Yves/Alamy If the proclamations and rules coming out of CITES are even half-implemented, endangered species of various domains–aquatic, terrestrial, animal and plant–will…
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Tagged conservation, endangered species, forest, logging, mahogany, plant_dicot, rosewood, tree, wood, woodland
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Replanting the elm trees?
Elm trees (Ulmus spp.) contribute beauty and diversity to landscapes in the British Isles. There are four elm species whose leaves are eaten by several species of butterfly larvae. One of those butterflies is the White Letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album) … Continue reading
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Tagged arboriculture, arthropod, beetle, butterfly, clone, coleopteran, conservation, disease, dutch elm disease, elm, forest, fungus, history, insect, landscape, lepidopteran, lichen, Ophiostoma ulmi, plant_dicot, research, symbiosis, tree, wood, woodland
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Tree of the month: Hazel
Today the moon is new so, according to this version of the Ogham calendar, we’ve just entered the Month of the Hazel or the Month of the Crabapple. I say ‘this version’ because people don’t always agree about the Ogham … Continue reading
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Tagged arboriculture, coppice, Europe, forest, hazel, nut, ogham, plant_dicot, tree, wood, woodland
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