Principal Scientist - Landscape & Restoration Ecology 🌍🌳🌲🔬@forestresearchuk.bsky.social🌳🌲🔬Biodiversity 🌼🐝 🦇🦉Experiments 🌳🌲@wrenproject.bsky.social 🌳 Hon Prof @stir.ac.uk📚
Kevin Watts
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Deer 🦌 activity limits tree 🌳 recruitment in woodland creation sites - Journal of Applied Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Structural complexity across a continuum of woodland establishment methods from planting to natural colonisation
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“Drivers of complexity in ecosystem restoration” Waddell 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time” - Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Exciting new dataset on 🌳'Trees Outside of Woodlands' in Wales - created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
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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.
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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/
Where should I put my acoustic monitor? If you're looking to study #biodiversity using #ecoacoustics, #PhD researcher @ecologybarnett.bsky.social can advise! Here he is talking at the BES Symposium 🔊
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
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Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding
the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on
interpreting snapshots of current...
University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences
Forest of Avon
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Robert Fletcher
James Bullock
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Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding
the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on
interpreting snapshots of current...
Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding
the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on
interpreting snapshots of current...
This study shows that ecological complexity is empirically measurable, and its development in restoration can be influenced by key variables, which have mechanistic underpinnings. The foundational ro...
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On 17 February 2026, the Knowledge Exchange Network for the Large-scale Ecosystem Recovery Network (LERN) was launched at Harold’s Park Wildland in Essex.
