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Most new woodlands are planted in former agricultural land, urban fringe areas and reclaimed industrial land, which tend to have few, if any, areas of existing woodland. Those woods or hedgerows that do remain often have an impoverished field-layer flora. This lack of seed sources, together with the poor dispersal mechanisms of woodland plants means...