Orchard Network

Evaluating Orchards

Windfall: putting a value on the social and environmental importance of orchards

Based on research conducted by Dave Marshall of the Bulmer Foundation for Forum For The Future

 

General

Orchards and groves: Their History, Ecology, Culture & Archaeology (2008) Landscape Archaeology and Ecology, Vol 7, Edited by Ian D Rotheram, Wildtrack Publishing

Proceedings of a national conference held at Sheffield Hallam University

 

Orchards in the National Trust: An Overview of their History, Economics, Wildlife & People

Paper prepared for the Sheffield Conference

 

Hedgelink visit to the hedgerows and orchards of Normandy, France 8-10 May 2010

Report from the HAP steering group for Hedgerows

 

Biodiverity (General)

Biodiversity Studies of Six Tradition Orchards in England (2009)

The results of research commisioned by English Nature (now Natural England)

 

Mistletoe

Mistletoe (viscum album); a brief overview of it's local status with recent oberservations on its insect associations and conservation problems.

A paper by Jonathan Briggs

 

Invertebrates

Noble Chafer Survey at Brockhampton Estate, Herefordshire

Carried out by the People's Trust for Endangered Species as part of the National Trust's Conserving & restoring Traditional Orchards, England Project.

 

Mollusca & Diatom Survey of Five Orchards in Norfolk

Part of the Norfolk County Council's Biodiversity Programme, which is linked to the East of England Apples & Orchards Project

 

Survey for the Mistletoe Marble Celypha woodiana in 2009

Survey by Mark Parsons (Butterfly Conservation) and James mcGill

 

Celypha woodiana - an update Parsons & MsGill (2010) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var 122

An update on the Mistletoe Marble

 

Colwall Orchards Invertebrate Survey

A report for the Colwall Orchard Group (Herefordshire) by Dr Keith Alexander (2009)

 

 

Orchards as Carbon Stores

An estimate of carbon storage in orchards in Herefordshire

Research by Bangor University