However, there has recently been a resurgence of coppicing, as it is a totally sustainable and environmentally friendly woodland management system. Sadly, throughout Britain there are acres of derelict coppice that badly need managing. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. However, there should not be too many standards left or the regrowth of the coppice will suffer from poor light levels.ДЄlthough coppicing is a traditional way to manage woodlands, from the 1960's coppicing as a trade started to decline as modern, synthetic materials came in which were cheaper and more easily available. A grove of small growth a thicket of brushwood a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. In this type of coppicing practice not all the trees in the coup are coppiced, allowing a number of trees to mature. The effects of coppice management on small mammal populations - J Gurnell, M Hicks and S Whitbread The interaction of deer and vegetation in coppice woods - P R Ratcliffe Part VII: effects of coppicing on invertebrate populations. The most usual coppicing system found in this area is called 'coppice with standards'. Coppice management for pheasants - C E Bealey and P A Robertson Part VI: Effects of coppicing on mammal populations. A coppiced woodland will encourage a wide diversity of insects, plants and animals to flourish such as woodland edge butterflies in a derelict coppiced woodland, many of these species are likely to disappear. None of the wood is wasted, even the tops can be laid over the stools to discourage deer browsing.Д¬oppicing is great for wildlife as it allows light into the woods, causing a burst of growth and flowering of the woodland plants, increasing the diversity of species and creating a variety of vegetation heights within the wood.

Many different types of trees will work, including apple, birch, ash, oak, willow, hazel, sweet chestnut. Fauna ДЇauna that reside within Bahamian dry forests includes the Bahaman funnel-eared bat ( Natalus tumidifrons), rock iguanas ( Cyclura spp.), the Bahamian hutia ( Geocapromys ingrahami), and the Cuban amazon ( Amazona leucocephala bahamensis).The underwood (trees and shrubs to be coppiced) is cut and laid out to be sorted into different products. Coppice species must be able to tolerate shade and produce satisfactory stool shoots. They are dominated by spiny black olive ( Bucida molinetii), but Swietenia mahagoni and Cedrela odorata also grow within them. These forests are often flooded at high tide. Rocky coppice occurs on limestone outcroppings between mangroves and pineyards. Shaded by the canopy, plants such as satin leaf ( Chrysophyllum oliviforme), Spanish stopper ( Eugenia foetida), Bahama wild coffee ( Psychotria ligustrifolia), Bahama strongbark ( Bourreria succulenta), night-scented orchid ( Epidendrum nocturnum), wormvine orchid ( Vanilla barbellata), and potbelly airplant ( Tillandsia paucifolia) grow in the understory. Trees found within them include West Indian mahogany ( Swietenia mahagoni), wild tamarind ( Lysiloma latisiliquum), red cedar ( Cedrela odorata), false mastic ( Sideroxylon foetidissimum), horseflesh ( Lysiloma sabicu), pigeon plum ( Coccoloba diversifolia), Jamaican dogwood ( Piscidia piscipula), gumbo-limbo ( Bursera simaruba), and lancewood ( Nectandra coriacea). For this reason some blackland coppice exists on hills entirely surrounded by forests of Caribbean pine ( Pinus caribaea var. Blackland coppice Д«lackland coppice covers the interior of many of the islands, usually in elevated regions. The understory features snake bark ( Colubrina arborescens) as well as cacti such as erect prickly pear ( Opuntia stricta), Turk's cap cactus ( Melocactus intortus), queen of the night ( Selenicereus grandiflorus), and robin tree cactus ( Pilosocereus polygonus). Trees that grow in whiteland coppices include cinnecord ( Acacia choriophylla), brasiletto ( Caesalpinia vesicaria), haulback tree ( Mimosa bahamensis), autograph tree ( Clusia rosea), manchineel tree ( Hippomane mancinella), West Indian mahogany ( Swietenia mahagoni), sea grape ( Coccoloba uvifera), gumbo-limbo ( Bursera simaruba), cabbage palmetto ( Sabal palmetto), and poisonwood ( Metopium toxiferum). Vegetation occurring in whiteland coppice is able to withstand salt spray and rocky, calcareous soil. Whiteland coppices are shrubby forests that occur near the ocean.

Coppice vegetation