Monks Wood
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Template:Infobox SSSI Monks Wood is a Script error: No such module "convert". National Nature Reserve north-west of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire,[1] and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[2] A slightly more extensive area of Script error: No such module "convert". is the Monks Wood and The Odd Quarter biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.[3]
The site is described by Natural England as one of Britain's most essential lowland woods. It is mainly of the wet ash-maple type, with a creamy shrub layer that was formerly coppiced. Trees include the rare wild service tree, particularly in The Odd Quarter. There is ground flora typical of ancient woodland, together with woodland rides, ponds, streams, and herb-rich grassland.[4]
Monks Wood was the site of an experimental biological research station of The Nature Conservancy from 1961 to 2009.[5] The marsh tits in the wood have been the subject of several studies.[6] Beginning in 1961, a Script error: No such module "convert". former barley field next to the station was allowed to naturally regenerate as a rewilding experiment.[7]
There is access to Monks Wood from the road, which runs along its southern boundary. The Odd Quarter is private property with no public access.
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- ↑ Broughton, R. K., Hinsley, S. A., Bellamy, P. E., Hill, R. A. & Rothery, P (2006). Marsh Tit Poecile palustris territories in a British broad-leaved wood. Ibis, 148. 744-752. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers". Retrieved 25 January 2009
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