Phenology

Question 1

What is phenology?

Answer 1

the study of seasonal periodicity and timings of plant growth

Question 2

What are vernal species?

Answer 2

Grow in the spring

Question 3

What are aestival species?

Answer 3

grow in summer

Question 4

What are autumnal species?

Answer 4

Grow in autumn/winter

Question 5

What are herbal species?

Answer 5

Grow in winter

Question 6

What type of soil do many relict woodland grow on?

Answer 6

Acid, dominated by oaks

Question 7

Why do some species have poor regeneration?

Answer 7

many Oaklands have ground layer dominated by D.flexulosa, which is a poor trap of oak leaf litter which is important for acorn germination and provides important cover for the acorns

Question 8

What is regeneration?

Answer 8

The process by which woodlands are restocked by trees that develop from seeds that fall and develop in situ

Question 9

How is Deschampsia flexuosa tolerant to grazing?

Answer 9

lots of intercalary meristem, which cis capable of rapid cell division for rapid growth and regrowth

Question 10

What are brown forest soils?

Answer 10

well drained with brownish subsoils where iron oxides created through weathering processes are bonded to silicate clays, low acidity, active mixing of the organic matter by organisms, no sharp bpundarioes

Question 11

What are podzol soils?

Answer 11

Almost no mixing of mineral and organic matter by organisms.
Sharp boundaries between horizons, and distinct horizons (surface accumulation of organic matter, a bleached mineral horizon, a rusty- coloured layer)
more acidic,