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Woodland Creation and Ecological Networks research project. Tweeting project news and information about woodland conservation and landscape ecology.
University of Stirling & FR
Joined October 2015
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Fragmentation impacts may be mixed for conservation but generally bad for restoration - Watts - Restoration Ecology - Wiley Online Library
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The influence of fragmentation per se on biodiversity is hotly debated, with evidence of negative, neutral, or even positive effects after controlling for habitat amount. Principles from this debate...
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8/ 👩💻👨💻 Co-authors - @KirstyJPark @EFuenMont at @StirBES, Matt Guy at @Forest_Research, Peter Carey & Nicholas A. Macgregor at @DICE_Kent & now @Parks_Australia
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8/ 📚 Check out the full paper led by @emilyhwaddell @watts_km🌱🌳 #Conservation #Ecology #Reforestation
https://t.co/d90pfFwMW5
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Woodland specialist and generalist plants were more likely to be present in larger woodland creation sites and those with higher variation in tree size (which was generally higher in older woodland...
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7/ 🌳 This research highlights the importance of creating large, structurally complex woodlands near existing woodlands to foster woodland plant colonisation and establishment.
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6/ 🌸 Woodland specialists are slow to colonize new sites, with their occurrence remaining low even after 80+ years. Enhancing structural complexity through woodland management could boost the establishment of these plants.
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5/ ⏳ We found that some plant communities in older creation sites (80-160 years) are compositionally similar to those in OG woodlands, but other woodlands diverge from this trajectory, highlighting the variability in woodland development.
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4/ 🪵Larger woodlands & those with greater structural complexity (which increases with age), support more woodland plants. Interestingly, the surrounding landscape had little influence on species richness - likely due to isolation from other woodlands.
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3/ 🔍 Our results show woodland generalists are readily colonising woodland creation sites to similar levels found in OG woodlands. But, there were fewer woodland specialist & more non-woodland plants in creation sites compared to OG.
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2/ 🌿 We surveyed ground plants in 102 woodland creation sites (10-160 years old) and 27 old growth (OG) woodlands (>250 years), to look at local & landscape-level drivers of woodland plant species richness.
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1/ 🌳 New research from the WrEN project reveals that larger and structurally complex woodland creation sites offer greater benefits for woodland plants! 🌱 Main findings below! 👇
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Are woodland plants 🌻colonising newly created woodlands 🌳? 👇 https://t.co/d90pfFxkLD
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Woodland specialist and generalist plants were more likely to be present in larger woodland creation sites and those with higher variation in tree size (which was generally higher in older woodland...
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And here is a link to the paper https://t.co/d90pfFxkLD
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Woodland specialist and generalist plants were more likely to be present in larger woodland creation sites and those with higher variation in tree size (which was generally higher in older woodland...
‘Are woodland plants 🌻colonising newly created woodlands🌳?’ See poster at @UK_Treescapes conference in Glasgow with a journal paper on the way. You can also keep up to date on the benefits of woodland creation for biodiversity @ https://t.co/jJ5i8Wc17s
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‘Are woodland plants 🌻colonising newly created woodlands🌳?’ See poster at @UK_Treescapes conference in Glasgow with a journal paper on the way. You can also keep up to date on the benefits of woodland creation for biodiversity @ https://t.co/jJ5i8Wc17s
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New blog by @thi_sanna about use of LiDAR technology to understand woodland ecology https://t.co/1xpphyh0nZ. If you are interested in this topic, register for the free @natcolonisation webinar this Friday (May 17th): https://t.co/EYE9MQkPnA
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🌳 Land managers, what are your views on expanding tree cover? Fill in our online survey to help inform our research: 📢 https://t.co/06knrosFOR This will help inform research focused on tree cover expansion through #TreePlanting and #NaturalColonisation. @StirUni @reheatRT
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🚨 FUNDED PHD ALERT🚨 Apply for a PhD gathering empirical evidence of ecological time-lags with @watts_km, @nanimuelbert and me @GeogBham The successful candidate would have the chance to build on existing theoretical work led by the team. https://t.co/eNA1ZwLpFF
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📢Fully funded #PhD studentship at @UofG_SBOHVM to investigate #biodiversity &🐭 #viruses in @WrENproject #woodlands with @EFuenMont @KirstyJPark @SteCata85 Apply by 27th Oct - https://t.co/xaohI9oBoe
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