Abstract
Summary The woodland within the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Abernethy Forest reserve currently extends over c. 28 km2. One third is plantation and two thirds (c. 19 km2) is native forest, representing one of the largest remnants of the Caledonian forest that once covered much of Highland Scotland. The Scots pine Pinus sylvestris L. is the most abundant tree. Structure was described according to two principal component scores, allowing characterization of the forest into stand types. In the lower, north-west part, plantations and wooded bogs predominate. In the plantations, the treesare younger and grow at a higher density than in the native forest. The upper, south-east section of the forest is composed largely of native pinewood; either old trees with deep crowns growing at a low density or high crown trees at a higher density. Different rates of recruitment, perhaps associated with fire may have led to these two stand types. In the last 100 years, selective felling has exaggerated ...
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