... com-plete pollarded woodlands.This work is a dendrochronological reconstruction of the management history in Tragamón, an old-growth oak wood-land located in the Cantabrian lowlands, northern ... decreased,particularly since 1917 in mature trees, and since 1905 in old-growths (Figs. 4 and 5). The loss of the pollarding practice,especially during the 20th century, could cause the collapse of many old-growth ... borers in autumn 2000. Totals of 52 mature oaks, all of them in La Isla, and 57 old-growth oaks, seven of them belonging to La Isla and 50 to Tragamón, were sampled for tree-ring analysis. Old-growth chestnut...