The Landscape Ecological Impact of Afforestation on the British Uplands and Some Initiatives to Restore Native Woodland Cover

• Published in: Journal of Landscape Ecology (Berlin, Germany) Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 5 - 24
• Main Authors: Bunce, Robert G. H., Wood, Claire M., Smart, Simon M., Oakley, Rachel, Browning, Gareth, Daniels, Mike J., Ashmole, Philip, Cresswell, John, Holl, Kate
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Open 01.11.2014; Sciendo
• Subjects: biodiversity loss; exotic conifers; landscape pattern; native woodland restoration; plantation trends

The majority of forest cover in the British Uplands had been lost by the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, because of felling followed by overgrazing by sheep and deer. The situation remained unchanged until a government policy of afforestation, mainly by exotic conifers, after the First World Wa...