📢Delighted to announce my big new #publication in the journal #Restoration #Ecology is now available online & #OpenAccess: "Montane willow scrub restoration in Scotland: reviewing 30 years of progress to reestablish the altitudinal treeline" (🧵1/10).👉

RT @ScotlandTBP: We are thrilled to welcome two new land partners to the Loch Abar Mòr fold, committing a further 10,000 acres to nature re….

📢We're recruiting for an exciting #PhD in #paleoecology "Montane mosaics in Scotland: understanding the past to inform the future". At @univofstandrews + @aberdeenuni, #Corrour & Mar Lodge Estate @N_T_S. For more details (see ‘staff-led proposals’):

I'm delighted to be invited as a keynote speaker at Scotland’s Nature Student Conference 2025 - 'People, Nature and Climate'!.

RT @ScotlandTBP: Our second priority for the year ahead is to deliver the first nature restoration projects within Loch Abar Mòr. 🌱. Follow….

📢 We're recruiting for a guaranteed fully-funded #interdisciplinary challenge-led #PhD in cutting-edge #environmental #monitoring for nature recovery, through @NETGAIN_DFA. Based at @StAndrewsSGSD @univofstandrews in collaboration with #Corrour!.

RT @MarLodgeNTS: These photos are of the same Downy willow, with one taken in September 2021, and one in December this year. Snow cover is….

RT @BSBIbotany: So #NewYearPlantHunt is over for another year. Please send in all your records by Sunday so we can analyse them & report b….

Doing the #NewYearPlantHunt @BSBIbotany while on a walk through Glen Quoich in #Deeside. No surprise that only two plants were #flowering up here, but it was lovely to see classic #Pinewood understory species Ling Heather (Calluna vulgaris) & Bell Heather (Erica cinerea)!

Delighted that my #PhD #research at @StirlingScience @StirUni features in this uplifting article in The Guardian! Wonderful recognition of 30+ years of restoration action for montane willows across Scotland, also spotlighting #NTSBenLawers @N_T_S.

RT @Forest_Research: Forest Research has made an important contribution to a new *Dendrochronology Research Framework for Scotland. 🌲👈. FR….

RT @BSBIbotany: Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2025!.We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses inc #Identiplant, and f….

RT @CSLyons: I'm beyond ecstatic to share that I've won the @BritishEcolSoc's Marsh Ecology Book of the Year for GROUNDBREAKERS! 1/.https:/….

Stunning day for some #outreach and enthusiastic discussions at #Corrour today! 🎙️❄️🏔️☀️📻.#peatland #restoration #regeneration

RT @CairngormsCo: . we’re spotlighting our Tree Nursery community starting with this beautiful piece in @MontaneWoodland's Bulletin: http….

RT @MarLodgeNTS: Aspens are popping up across Mar Lodge, often far from the nearest mature trees. Of our 89 individual stands, 35 are compr….

We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by.@UK_CEH, @StirUni & @Forest_Research.Apply here:

I'm super excited that a #lichen of international significance has been discovered at #Corrour! Yellow Specklebelly (Pseudocyphellaria citrina) is a temperate #rainforest specialist & this find on an old Goat #Willow is unusually far east for #Lochaber. Record &📷 by Ian Strachan

RT @PinkfootedGus: Had to wait a bit to post this until both were confirmed, but my other 2 finds from this particular job that I was gey c….

Great to be out doing #fieldwork today at #Corrour, #monitoring our #montane Scots #Pine planting & mycorrhizal inoculation trial WITHOUT the use of fencing. Rather chuffed with how well these trees have fared in the year since planting up here above #LochOssian at 500m altitude!

RT @ScotLINK: Restoring nature takes time, and money. But the results can be amazing. In the Cairngorms, @MarLodgeNTS is regenerating Cale….