Sentences with phrase «atlantic oak woodlands»

They found that — even 30 years after rhododendron removal — the native understorey normally found in Atlantic oak woodlands had not recovered.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.