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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Early on in my walks through the Scots pine woods of Abernethy, I began to notice the standing dead trees.

They come in all shapes and sizes, barkless and pale amongst the deep greens of the living trees,

pock-marked, riddled with the traces of beetles and beasties, some retain their bark, some are liking covered.

Over time they will fracture their branches, sometimes shear half their trunks onto the forest floor.

Such trees are known as snags, and when I investigated further, I found the deadwood in a Scots pine forest is incredibly important for the forest's health.

These trees can stand for decades, decaying quietly, slowly,

leaching a gradual and steady release of nutrients back into the forest's understory.

Artist and writer Amanda Thompson reading from her new book, Belonging.

And it's the symbol of the snag which she weaves into her personal inquiry into themes of

home, memory and identity.

They are home to a vast array of birds and insects, some very rare, specialist saproxilic species,

including several types of beetles, wasps and hoverflies, and the lichens and fungi are dependent on these microhabitats.

Ecological islands of otherness that dead and dying wood provides.

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