Is habitat fragmentation good or bad for biodiversity?
This debate is stymied by studying snapshots of current landscape patterns
Our paper reminds us fragmentation is the breaking apart of habitat over time
Suggesting approaches to assess fragmentation as a process
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.
We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.
We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
A really fun and engaging process working on the paper. Thanks to you and the team — looking forward to collaborating again!
“Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time” - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Congrats 🙌 @jmjtravis.bsky.social
We’re #Hiring a Tree & Woodland Officer 🌳
Do you have a passion for trees, nature, and tackling the climate crisis? Join our growing team and help deliver impactful woodland creation and tree planting projects across the region.
📅 Apply by 13th April 2026
Find out more: forestofavon.org/careers/
Exciting new dataset on 🌳'Trees Outside of Woodlands' in Wales - created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
datamap.gov.wales/layers/geono...
Structural complexity across a continuum of woodland establishment methods from planting to natural colonisation
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🌳Structural complexity across a continuum of woodland establishment methods from planting to natural colonisation🌳
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Looking forward to the #BES2025 Annual Meeting next week!
If you're interested in restoration, food webs, landscapes and species recovery, join me for the session:
"Species interactions and recovery under global change" - Tuesday 16th - 5:30pm - Lammermuir 1
There are problems with binary definitions of nativeness
“Dilemmas arise from the dynamic nature of species' distribution ranges on longer time scales,
in the application to smaller regions defined by arbitrary borders,
& limited knowledge of species' past distributions”
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Looking forward to #BES2025 this week! If you're interested in restoration, complexity and ecoacoustics you should definitely check out my talk on Thursday 🌳🌲🌳🐦🐦⬛
Could a 'lightweight' digital twin of a river system be a low cost tool to help us manage water quality and other pressures? We have a new PhD opportunity between Cardiff University and @natreswales.bsky.social to test this idea 🌍🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It’s been a busy few days in the field, but we’ve now established 200+ experimental plots for the LERN (Large-Ecosystem Recovery Network) across four post-agricultural sites in England. A major milestone for the project and exciting to see the configuration finally taking shape 🌳🦅🐝🌼
Very timely paper on the importance of long-term large-scale experiments 🌍
We’re just in the process of trying to set up the ‘Large-scale Ecosystem Recovery Network’
🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining.
We're trying to understand why.
If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins).
👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791...
Reposts welcome!
Check out our new preprint. In this review we show the comparative decline of experimental approaches in community ecology and discuss some alternatives to push the field forward
Experimental community ecology in decline: A call to embrace technology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
Good question - yes, LERN (Large-scale Ecosystem Recovery Network) is designed to be a long-term BACI experiment. Perhaps we should join the @ect-uk.bsky.social network??
We managed to add in some ground preparation treatments to our 2nd LERN site before the plough broke - experiments seem a lot easier on paper 🤣
Another 48 plots laid out on our 2nd LERN site in Herefordshire (incl some ground prep treatments) 👍🏼 2 more sites still to go 🌳
On my way to Research-Practice Event to talk about using natural processes to create new woodlands 🌳 britainsforestfuture.zohobackstage.eu/event
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
You'll be working closely with a team of researchers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and alogside some amazing partners at Forest Research @watts-km.bsky.social and a wider network of collabroators across Europe.
Do get in touch if you have questions about the role. Applications close on 27 November
Amazing 3-year ‘field technician’ position at @bristoluni.bsky.social to work with @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social @forestresearchuk.bsky.social & others on some really cool forest 🌳 experiments 👇 #dreamjob
If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage
Can we derive general rules?
Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands
& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands
both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Restoration of ecological interactions: The influence of site and land... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New output from the restreco.com project
🚨PhD opportunity🚨Come and work with us & Stirling Uni to understand the role of woodland creation 🌳in nature recovery 🌺🦋
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
more PhD info here www.linkedin.com/posts/efuent...
