... established, tall, and have many leaves. There will not be much light under the old coppice due to the developed trees' foliage. Hypothesis I think that the types of plant and the percentage of species diversity will vary as to how dark the area under the coppice chosen is - under an older coppice, there would be less light due to the size and amount of leaves, so there would be a greater variety of plants in the new coppice. Trees shadow other plants around them as they also need to photosynthesise to produce energy for themselves. The chloroplasts in the leaves try to capture as much light as possible for the plant, so this does not allow much light to reach the ground. The younger coppices would contain undeveloped trees which would be smaller with less foliage, and so would not shadow the ground as much. I might also ...

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