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Winter Ash Haiku
Afterlife tool and spoke Winter ash gale bend and yield Oak a merest nod Gabriel Hemery During the recent winter gales in England I was inspired to write a Haiku poem. The amazing flexibility of the...
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Coppice story 2012
One and half years ago I started following the story on a single ancient ash coppice stool. In January 2011 it caught my attention in a woodland because someone had written, on one of its freshly-cut...
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Ash trees at dawn in the Cumbrian mountains
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Ash dieback could devastate Britain’s landscape
Name an iconic tree species for Britain … Did you answer oak or Scots pine? My guess is that it was one or the other. There is another species however that holds a unique place in British landscapes,...
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Ash dieback spreads in British countryside
Ash dieback caused by the pathogenic fungus Chalara fraxinea has been confirmed on woodland trees in the British countryside. In this case I am not happy in being proven correct in my prediction of...
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A ten-point plan for ash dieback Chalara fraxinea in Britain
There has been too much knee-jerk reactionary panic to the arrival of ash dieback Chalara fraxinea to Britain’s shores, and a tedious jostling for position and profile between NGOs and others that...
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Chalara fraxinea has been wild in Britain for at least two years
After probably the largest-ever rapid survey of Britain’s woodlands, new incidences of Chalara fraxinea, the fungal pathogen that causes ash dieback, have been found in a possible 100 sites across the...
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Woodland biosecurity – a simple guide
Biosecurity – preventing the introduction and spread of harmful organisms – is big news at long last! The arrival of Chalara fraxinea in Britain has brought this important issue to the fore. However, I...
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Hunting for a venerable ash tree - can you help?
Reblogged from The New Sylva: The authors are searching for the finest example of a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree to feature in The New Sylva. We hope that our readers can help by submitting...
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Drawing a venerable ash
Reblogged from The New Sylva: Regular readers will know that the authors have been searching for the best example of a venerable ash tree in Britain to feature in The New Sylva (read the story)....
View ArticleAsh chapter must now be rewritten
Following the devastating news that the fungal pathogen Chalara fraxinea is rampant in the British countryside, our ash chapter requires now a major rewrite. We had completed the section on ash...
View ArticleHunting for a venerable ash tree – can you help?
The authors are searching for the finest example of a common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) tree to feature in The New Sylva. We hope that our readers can help by submitting their favourite ash trees – one...
View ArticleHunting for a venerable ash tree – results
In December we announced that we were hunting for a venerable ash to feature as the frontispiece for The New Sylva – read more. We’ve been overcome by the number of fantastic ash trees submitted by...
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Regular readers will know that the authors have been searching for the best example of a venerable ash tree in Britain to feature in The New Sylva (read the story). Yesterday we visited the chosen ash...
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I love ash
I LOVE ASH by Gabriel Hemery The post I love ash appeared first on Gabriel Hemery.
View ArticleA trait-based approach for forest ecosystem management
One of my more recent co-authored research articles has been selected as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in The Applied Ecologist’s Blog . The paper, Maintaining ecosystem properties after loss of ash in Great...
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Ash dieback is an environmental calamity that will cost Britain £15 billion
A research paper published today estimates that the cost of ash dieback in Britain will reach a shocking £15 billion. I was privileged to have supported lead author Louise Hill as an external...
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Ash dieback paper kindles national interest
Today (7th May 2019), the media picked up on the importance of the scientific paper which I revealed yesterday, which calculates the economic cost of ash dieback in Britain to total £15 billion....
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Illustrating an environmental catastrophe
Given the massive media interest in the paper I co-authored about ash dieback (published last week in Current Biology) — 280 news channels, magazines, and newspapers, and counting— it was easy to...
View ArticleBest replacement tree species to mitigate the loss of ash in Britain
As the spread of ash dieback across Britain becomes more noticeable, there is a peak in interest about the consequences of ash dieback, with landowners and conservationists seeking good advice about...
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