Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term
död ved
5 +3 | deadwood |
George Hopkins
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3 +1 | dead wood |
Charles Ek
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Proposed translations
deadwood
dead wood
I think we might need a silviculture specialist translator to resolve this one -- I could go either way.
Dead wood is increasingly being regarded as a major component and useful indicator of biodiversity in forests[.]
Studies in temperate forests in North America and elsewhere suggest that in a healthy, wild forest dead wood can comprise as much as 30% of the overall woody biomass.
http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/69/3/275
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/forest/ecological/deadwood.html
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