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Surveying the Distribution and Abundance of Plants in Different Coppices Aim: To survey the distribution and abundance of plant species in old and new coppice woodland and determine the factors that cause these patterns. Introduction: Coppicing woodlands is a method by which trees such as hazel and ash are cut back to almost ground level, leaving just the stumps or 'stools', from which many new shoots will grow from. The wood cut from these trees was once used for a wide variety of things, including thatching spars and firewood. As the trees were cut back, this allowed a lot more light to reach the woodland floor, allowing a greater diversity of both plant and animal life-forms to exist. After eight years, once the trees have many shoots which have grown back to replace those cut off, these are then cut off too between November and March, allowing even more shoots to grow in their place,...

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