European forestry strategies place emphasis on developing alternative management
practices to clearfelling within commercial forests as a means of increasing the non-market …

The UK has until very recently been through a phase of significant development, in particular
for housing and transport networks, but currently compensation for ecological impacts is …

We review the effectiveness of habitat creation in an attempt to better understand the
potential for delivery of compensatory habitat as part of sustainable development solutions …

A thorough understanding of the rate of depletion of ungerminated seeds in soil is necessary
to understand and model the population dynamics of many plant species. To assess how …

This study aimed at evaluating the potential role of persistent soil seedbanks in restoring
grassland and heathland communities in sites that have been afforested or are currently …

Question: Is the seed bank in dune slacks during the whole successional range mainly
composed of early successional species or does it vary according to the changing …

The success of calcareous grassland recreation following abandonment depends to a large
extent on the composition of the soil seed bank. We studied the species richness and …

Succession comprises many ecological processes that underpin all ecological restoration
and ecological restoration is a manipulation of these processes to achieve its goals. This …

Semi-natural habitats such as heathland ecosystems are important for the conservation of
biodiversity. Due to land use changes, these valuable ecosystems have become highly …

We compared the effectiveness of topsoil removal and deep ploughing of an agriculturally
improved grass field at creating suitable soil conditions for establishment of heathland …