Further reading continuous cover silviculture - full list

 

Cameron, A.D., Mason, W.L., & Malcolm, D.C. (eds.) (2001). The transformation of plantation forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 151, 224 p.

Edwards, C. & Dixon, A. (1994). Black Wood of Rannoch – effects of an exclosure on tree regeneration. Native Woodlands Discussion Group Newsletter 19, 49-52.

Edwards, C. & Mason, W.L. (2000).  Long term structure and vegetation changes in a native pinewood reserve in northern Scotland.  In: Long-term studies in British woodland, (eds.) K.J. Kirby and M.D. Morecroft.  English Nature Science, 34, 32-40.

Edwards, C. & Mason, W.L. (2006). Stand structure and dynamics of four native Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) woodlands in northern Scotland. Forestry. 79: 261-277.

Edwards, C. & Nixon, C.J. (1997). The potential role of uneven-aged management in Scots pine forests in northern Britain. Studies of age structure and stand dynamics. In: Uneven-aged Management Symposium, IUFRO, 37-45. Corvallis, Oregon.

Edwards, C. & Rhodes, A. (2006). The influence of ground disturbance on natural regeneration in a native pinewood: results after 60 years. Scottish Forestry (in prep).

Hale, S.E. & Brown, N. (2005). Use of the canopy-scope as a means of assessing canopy openness in plantation forests in Britain. Forestry, 78, 365-371.

Hale, S.E. & Edwards, C. (2002). Comparison of film and digital hemispherical photography for assessing canopy characteristics and the understorey light environment of British plantation forests. Agric. For. Meteorol. 112, 51–56.

Hale, S.E. (2001). Light regime beneath Sitka spruce plantations in northern Britain: preliminary results. For. Ecol. Manage. 151, 1-3, 61-66.

Hale, S.E. (2003). The effects of thinning intensity on the below-canopy light environment in a Sitka spruce plantation. For. Ecol. Manage. 179, 341-349.

Hale, S.E. (2004). Managing Light to Enable Natural Regeneration in British Conifer Forests ^(PDF-100K). Information Note 63. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh. pp. 6.

Hale, S.E., Levy, P.E. & Gardiner, B. (2004). Trade-offs between seedling growth and stand stability in alternative silvicultural systems : a modelling analysis. For. Ecol. Manage. 187, 105-115.

Harmer, R., Kerr, G. & Boswell, R. (1997). Characteristics of lowland broadleaved woodland being restocked using natural regeneration, Forestry, 70(3), 199-210.

Hart, C. (1995). Alternative Silvicultural Systems to Clear Cutting in Britain: a review. FC Bulletin 115. HMSO. London.

Helliwell, D.R. (1997). Dauerwald. Forestry 70, 375-380.

Helliwell, D.R. (2000). Continuous Cover Forestry. Rodney Helliwell, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK.

Ireland, D. (2006). Traction Aids in Forestry ^(PDF-1690K). Technical Note 13, Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Jones, H.E., McNamara, N., & Mason, W.L. (2005). Functioning of mixed-species stands: evidence from a long-term forest experiment. In: Ecological Studies 176. Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Pp 111-130.

Kerr, G. & Harmer, R. (2001). Potential use of alternative silvicultural systems in broadleaved woodlands. ICF News, 1/2001: 3-4.

Kerr, G. & O’Hara, K.L. (2000). Uneven-aged silviculture: common myths explored.  Quarterly Journal of Forestry, 94(2): 145-150.

Kerr, G. (1999). The use of silvicultural systems to enhance the biological diversity of plantation forests in Britain. Forestry, 72(3):191-205

Kerr, G. (2000). Natural regeneration of Corsican pine (Pinus nigra subsp. laricio) in Great Britain.  Forestry, 73(5):479-488.

Kerr, G. (2001). An improved spreadsheet to calculate target diameter distributions in uneven-aged silviculture. Continuous Cover Forestry Group Newsletter 19. August 2001.

Kerr, G. (2001). Comparison of the ground flora in a stand of oak (Quercus petraea and Q. robur) after "free growth" and light crown thinning.  Quarterly Journal of Forestry, 95(2):137-142 .

Kerr, G. (2001). Uneven-aged silviculture in Britain. Forest Research Report 2001/2, p35-42. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Kerr, G. (2002). The potential for the sustainable management of semi-natural woodlands in southern England using uneven-aged silviculture. Forestry, 75:227-243.

Kerr, G. (2002). Uneven-aged silviculture: putting ideas into practice. Quarterly Journal of Forestry, 96(2):111-116.

Kerr, G., Edwards, C. & Mason, W.L. (2005). Successful CCF from 48p per year! Forestry and British Timber 34(1):16-20.

Kerr, G., Mason, W. L., Boswell, R. (2003). A sampling system to monitor the transformation from even-aged stands to continuous cover.  Forestry, 76(4): 425-435.

Kerr, G., Mason, W.L., Boswell, R., & Pommerening, A. (2002). Monitoring the transformation of even-aged stands to Continuous Cover Management ^(PDF-188K). Forestry Commission Information Note 45, Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.

Kerr, G., Poore, A., Pengelly, D. & Brown, A. (2002). Stand dynamics of conversion to continuous cover forestry. Continuous Cover Forestry Group Newsletter 21. September 2002.

Malcolm, D.C., Mason, W.L., & Clarke, G.C. (2001). The transformation of conifer forests in Great Britain – regeneration, gap size, and silvicultural systems. Forest Ecology and Management, 151, 7-23.

Mason, W.L. & Humphrey, J.W. (2004). Silvicultural strategies for developing old growth structures in conifer plantations with reference to oceanic climates. Berichte Freiburger Forstliche Forschung 47, 30.

Mason, W.L. & Kerr, G. (2001). Transforming even-aged conifer stands to Continuous Cover Management ^(PDF-88K). Forestry Commission Information Note 40, Forestry Commission, Edinburgh. 8pp. (revised version in 2004).

Mason, W.L. (2001). Challenges to the use of continuous cover in the management of conifer forests in Great Britain. Continuous Cover Forestry Group newsletter, 18, 36-51. Also in : Sustainability in Time and Space: Proceedings of the Third International Pro-Silva Congress, Fallingbostel, Germany. Pp 178-186.

Mason, W.L. (2002). Are irregular stands more windfirm? Forestry, 75, 347-355.

Mason, W.L. (2003). Continuous Cover Forestry: developing close-to-nature forest management in conifer plantations in upland Britain. Scottish Forestry, 57, 141-149.

Mason, W.L. (2006). Managing mixed stands of conifers and broadleaves in upland forests in Britain. Forestry Commission Information Note, in press.

Mason, W.L. (2006). Silviculture of Scottish forests at a time of change. Journal of Sustainable Forestry. Accepted for publication.

Mason, W.L. (2006). Transformation of conifer plantations to mixed forests: initial guidance from an experiment in Wykeham forest, North Yorkshire. Quarterly Journal of Forestry, 1-12.

Mason, W.L., Edwards, C. & Hale, S.E. (2004). Survival and early seedling growth of conifers with different shade tolerance in a Sitka spruce spacing trial and relationship to understorey light climate. Silva Fennica 38(4): 357–370.

Mason, W.L., Kerr, G. & Simpson, J. (1999). What is Continuous Cover Forestry? ^(PDF-81K).  Forestry Commission Information Note 29. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh. 8pp.

Mason, W.L., Kerr, G., Pommerening, A., Edwards, C., Hale, S.E., Ireland, D., & Moore, R. (2005). Continuous Cover Forestry in British conifer forests ^(PDF-616K). Forest Research Annual Report 2003-2004, 38-53.

Saunders, C. J., & Ireland D. (2005). Extraction Route Trials on Sensitive Sites.

Yorke, D.B.M. (1998). The management of Continuous Cover Forests: an alternative to clearfelling. Mark York, Tywyn, Gwynedd.