What is woodland biodiversity?
Biodiversity can be defined as 'the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular environment'. So, woodland biodiversity usually refers to the sheer variety of different wildlife species and habitats within a wood.
A healthy native woodland, particularly a broadleaved one, would have a huge range of different wildlife species that either live within it or use it at least part of their time.
The myriad of trees and other plants together with many different height levels found in a wood, from the woodland floor to the tree canopy, provide such a wide range of different habitat niches. It is these that provide homes for the fantastic range of animals that frequent woods and enable so many wildlife species to exist alongside one another.
That is why the broadleaved woodland world in particular, can support so many species.