@WrENproject

Woodland Creation and Ecological Networks research project. Tweeting project news and information about woodland conservation and landscape ecology.

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Fragmentation impacts may be mixed for conservation but generally bad for restoration - Watts - Restoration Ecology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Fragmentation impacts may be mixed for conservation but generally bad for restoration

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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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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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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9/ 💷 Thanks to our funders - @DefraGovUK, @ForestryComm, @NatForestCo, @NaturalEngland & @TarmacLtd
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Are woodland plants 🌻colonising newly created woodlands 🌳? 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Larger and structurally complex woodland creation sites provide greater benefits for woodland plants

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 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Larger and structurally complex woodland creation sites provide greater benefits for woodland plants

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...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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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 @ wren-project.com
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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 @ wren-project.com
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New blog by @thi_sanna about use of LiDAR technology to understand woodland ecology wren-project.com/tree-planat…. If you are interested in this topic, register for the free @natcolonisation webinar this Friday (May 17th): events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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🌳 Land managers, what are your views on expanding tree cover? Fill in our online survey to help inform our research: 📢 ow.ly/SuzO50Qk6RJ 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. centa.ac.uk/studentship/2024…
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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 - findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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