Lady Park Wood is an attractive place and an ecologically interesting wood in the UK, but its main significance for ecologists lies in its early establishment as a research reserve and the long and detailed record of its trees. This chapter provides details on the origins, the managed compartment,...

A planned characterization study of Scottish landraces of bristle oat (Avena strigosa [Avena nuda]) was redesigned and became an 'on farm' project in the largest area of its cultivation, on the remote Outer Hebrides. The aim of the characterization was to assess A. strigosa diversity between and...