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WrEN @WrENproject

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

Joined October 2015
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WrEN@WrENproject
7 Mar 2025
We’re off to Blue Sky - please come & join us @wrenproject.bsky.social We’ll be closing our X account soon
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WrEN@WrENproject
19 Aug 2024
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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WrEN@WrENproject
14 Jun 2024
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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WrEN@WrENproject
14 Jun 2024
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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WrEN@WrENproject
14 Jun 2024
9/ 💷 Thanks to our funders - @DefraGovUK, @ForestryComm, @NatForestCo, @NaturalEngland & @TarmacLtd
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WrEN@WrENproject
12 Jun 2024
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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WrEN@WrENproject
12 Jun 2024
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
WrEN@WrENproject
11 Jun 2024
‘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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WrEN@WrENproject
11 Jun 2024
‘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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Julia Koricheva@KorichevaLab
14 May 2024
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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@Forest_Research
19 Dec 2023
🌳 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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Dr Laura Graham@LauraJaneGraham
20 Oct 2023
🚨 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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Christina Faust@cl_faust
3 Oct 2023
📢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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