Coppice with standards

A Coppice is a historic forest design, which owes its name to, because on an area two farming systems are combined, the low forest with its short rotation and an age-matched sub- layer, and the high forest with its long rotation and a mostly uneven- upper class.

This provides the means of two forest tree layers, the upper of wood that may be old and the undergrowth, which is extensively harvested for firewood approximately every 30 years. This stratification develops, since one well-grown trees of desired tree species allowed to stand at harvesting of the coppice. This was to nutzholzliefernde light tree species such as oak, ash or poplar. This Kernwüchse (so-called " Lassreisel " ) have similar features as the transfer container in the high forest. They allow natural regeneration in the undergrowth. Furthermore, they develop powerful crowns, which are refuges for many animal and plant species in this forest form.

Later, they also went on to introduce the upper class by plantations. Especially popular this was the oak, as it provides not only valuable timber, but also an autumnal pig makes. Many Central European oak-hornbeam forests are therefore also due to the agent 's forests.

The term "Middle forest " comes from the forest scientist Heinrich Cotta, who used it in his book instruction for silviculture (1817 ) for the first time. The Coppice " is practically a coppice, in which you always individual, particularly good tribes - mostly oaks -. Lets get older and reaps only after reaching a nutzholzfähigen diameter"

Until recent years, the Coppice economy was strong in decline. About 1 % of the German forest area is currently being used as a low - or medium forest. Former middleweight forests are being converted into high forests. Central Franconia Kehrenberg there is a still standing in use and scientifically well-studied means forest. In France, this type of forest management is still much more common than in Germany (1963 it was still 48%).

Notwithstanding historical or aesthetic significance coppice can be special habitats and form a special ecosystem. Therefore is for a conservation of purchase these special habitats needed.