Ecotype

Summer 2013^(PDF-1255K)

• New Centre....New Opportunities
• The Matrix: Influence of disturbance and fragmentation on species richness in Ugandan forests
• How could ‘future’ change in UK forests and wooded landscapes affect the delivery of Ecosystem services
• Using historical woodland creation to unpick the ecological net works concept
• National and International perspectives on red squirrel conservation
• Green infrastructure and ecosystem services
• New climate matching tool under development
• Grey squirrels and bark stripping: Bones of contention?
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

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Winter 2012-13 ^(PDF-1603K)

• Red squirrel response to forest operations
• Peatbog restoration - research into practice
• Is the future risky? Risk perceptions among British forest planners
• The value of managing coppice woodlands
• Developing high resolution ESC
• The Life of Pi
• Predicting Potential Evapotranspiration (PET)
• Understanding the response of tree species to drought stress
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 56, February 2013.

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Autumn 2012 ^(PDF-1608K)

• Green network opportunity mapping within the Glasgow & Clyde Valley Region of Central Scotland
• The Wheatley Elm in Edinburgh
• Sustainable woodland management and the ground flora
• Spatial modelling of provenance regions and future site suitability matching across Europe (Trees4Future)
• Ecological Site Classification Version 3
• Impacts and monitoring of Wild Boar
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 55, October 2012.

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Spring 2012 ^(PDF-1688K)

• Giant Panda Conservation & Forest Landscape Restoration
• Participation of Forest Research staff in EUFORGEN Phase IV
• A new woodland resilience indicator for Forestry Commission England
• Climate change adaption - assessing the implications of assisted migration of tree provenances on associated biodiversity
• Assessing grey squirrel movement with GPS technology
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 54, May 2012.

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Winter 2011-12 ^(PDF-1589K)

• Changes within the Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences
• Restoring blanket bog
• Aerial surveys for Phytopthora ramorum in Wales show extent of damage by squirrels to larch
• New work investigating ‘MARXAN with zones’ in land use planning
• Suppressing bramble using overstory cover – does it work?
• British forestry and climate change: how can changes in climate affect forests?
• Understanding the value of second rotation forestry to black grouse
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 53, February 2012.

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Autumn 2011 ^(PDF-1542K)

• Woodland structure and birds – effects of woodland management and deer browsing
• LiDAR continues to discover new woodland heritage
• People-wildlife interactions
• Adaptive genetic variation of Scots pine in Scotland
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 52, October 2011.

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Summer 2011 ^(PDF-1589K)

• Gold-star ungulates: Seed dispersal services in Białowieza Forest
• Wood ants in Scotland, an update
• Green networks and spatial planning
• Yes, light cattle grazing improves black grouse habitats
• DNA analysis of yew
• Multi-scale modelling of bat foraging habitat suitability
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 51, July 2011.

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Spring 2011 ^(PDF-1983K)

• What’s all the fuss about Interdisciplinarity?
• Development of a web-based tool to inform woodland management for species
• Reading between the lines - Dendrochronology
• The Woodland Grazing Toolbox
• UK India collaboration project
• Trees, fungi and nitrogen pollution
• News and conferences
• About Ecotype

Issue 50, March 2011.

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September 2010 ^(PDF-3168K)

• Lighting the past to illuminate the present
• Distribution of wood ants in the Trossachs
• A positive response by hazel dormice to conifer PAWS restoration
• The MARXAN spatial tool
• Scat identification service for British bat species
• About Ecotype

Issue 49.

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February 2010 ^(PDF-819K)

• Green networks and people
• Does bramble facilitate tree establishment in woodlands?
• Dealing with birch on restored lowland bogs
• Red deer performance and health - an update
• News and conferences

Issue 48.

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November 2009 ^(PDF-2448K)

• Experiences of an interdisciplinary project
• New model species for genetic processes in different landscapes
• New native woodlands - are they delivering the benefits?
• Scats the way to do it!
• Connectivity: What's it all about?
• Testing a habitat connectivity indicator
• Size does matter - risk of tree damage by grey squirrels
• Pearl-bordered fritillary and chequered skipper habitat monitoring
• Ecological networks conference: Science and practice

Issue 47.

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March 2009 ^(PDF-1668K)

• Using models to inform red deer management
• Quantitative reconstruction of vegetation in Inshriach Forest
• Genetic fingerprinting of two forms of black poplar
• Soil-landscape modelling: improving the resolution of soil data
• Restoration of native woodland and community ecology concepts
• News

Issue 46.

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January 2009 ^(PDF-1138K)

• Red deer performance and health
• Open habitats research needs
• Urban green networks for people
• Improved silver birch
• Landscape connectivity - a systematic review
• ForeSTClim - climate change adaptation strategies for forests
• News and conferences

Issue 45.

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November 2008 ^(PDF-1175K)

• Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for conservation and tree breeding
• Validation of the CLIMADAPT knowledge base models
• Developing a habitat connectivity indicator for biodiversity reporting
• Joint management of ungulates, forests and forest landscapes
• HaRPPS Version 2 - Review by species experts
• The Dvinsky old growth forest in Northern Russia
• Have you seen a black squirrel?
• News

Issue 44.

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September 2008 ^(PDF-3957K)

• Can wood crickets tell us how the landscape affects connectivity?
• A vision for the uplands?
• Mammal control on islands
• Resistance distance
• Priority woodland types prediction in Wales
• Thinking ahead...to 2030?!
• News

Issue 43.

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May 2008 ^(PDF-1033K)

• Insect diversity and continuous cover forestry
• Restoration of Western Hemlock PAWS
• Greenspace gateways
• How does a marten feed her young?
• Scat identification - a cautionary tale
• News

Issue 42.

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March 2008 ^(PDF-691K)

• An overview of the work of Ecology Division
• People within Ecology Division
• Highlights from recent activities
• News

Issue 41.

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January 2008 ^(PDF-645K)

• Habitat networks for guiding integrated land-use
• Two new Defra projects on landscape ecology
• Will they or won't they?
• Surveying forest soil and biodiversity - the pan-European BioSoil project
• Do seed zones conserve adaptive variation?
• The Scottish crossbill census
• News, new publications, conferences

Issue 40.

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November 2007 ^(PDF-855K)

• Something grumbling beyond the Chiltern woods?
• Digital video technology for monitoring wildlife
• Juniper die-back in Tayside
• Disturbing events – Wind and partial waves in the forest
• ESC going to Ireland (via Kyoto and Marrakesh)
• Establishment of a European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources
• News, conferences

Issue 39.

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September 2007 ^(PDF-950K)

• What a difference DNA makes
• Can we tell these three birds apart from their droppings?
• Not just a load of old dung
• Conservation of Huemul in Chile
• Exposed! - Predicting filled and empty seeds in juniper with X-radiographs
• Open and woodland habitat networks: Not a conflict, an opportunity
• Estimating future soil moisture regime
• News, new publications, workshops/conferences

Issue 38.

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May 2007 ^(PDF-1193K)

• Direct sowing – useful or useless for PAWS restoration?
• Spatial tools for directing native woodland improvement and expansion
• Crack filling
• Open Habitats Project
• Black poplar - how many clones are being planted?
• Grey squirrels - latest control news
• News, new publications, workshops/conferences

Issue 37.

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March 2007 ^(PDF-590K)

• An introduction to the work of Ecology Division
  • People within Ecology Division
  • Highlights from recent activities
  • New work
  • Just over the horizon
• Kinnoul Hill and Drummond Hill forests, Perthshire
  • News
  • New publications
  • Workshops/conferences: Scottish Squirrel Forum

Issue 36.

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July 2006 ^(PDF-376K)

• Programme group research update: Rural & urban landscape ecology
  • Evaluating biodiversity in fragmented landscapes
  • A GIS method for targeting PAWS restoration management
  • Improving Forest Habitat Networks for woodland specialists
  • Developing Lowland Habitat Networks in Scotland
• Conferences
  • New woods, new lives, new landscapes
  • Scrub - the Cinderella habitat?

Issue 35.

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May 2006 ^(PDF-410K)

• Programme group research update - Conservation & management of species & genetic resources
  • The use of microsatellites to assess the degree of clonal duplication of black poplar in Ireland
  • Climate change and forest genetic diversity: implications to sustainable forest management
  • Native rowan experiment established
  • Red squirrel conservation in Scotland
  • Update on the spread of squirrelpox virus
  • Survey of Welsh small-leaved lime woods for the scarce lime bark beetle Ernoporus tiliae
  • Woodland birds - their ecology & management
• Publications
  • Forest Fencing Technical Guide - 2006

Issue 34.

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March 2006 ^(PDF-564K) 

• Programme group research update - Habitat management & ecosystem dynamics
  • A judgement-based method to assess overgrazing
  • Bog deforestation & restoration - some science at last
  • Plans for improving survey coverage of birds in woodlands
  • The repeat woodland bird survey
  • Research on lowland Planted Ancient Woodlands (PAWS)
  • Research on bramble in woodlands
• Proceedings of the Native Pinewood conference, Drumnadrochit, 2004

Issue 33.

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January 2006 ^(PDF-534K)

• Programme group research update - Biodiversity indicators and knowledge management:
  • Forests & biodiversity guidelines
  • HaRPPS decision support system
  • Biodiversity indicators & evaluation programme
  • Ecological site classification
• Other news:
  • Bramble & the natural regeneration of trees
• Conferences:
  • Woodland birds: their ecology & management
  • Woodland mammals: their ecology, conservation & management

Issue 32.

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November 2005 ^(PDF-578K)

• Programme group research update - Rural and urban landscape ecology programme group:
  • Habitat networks
  • Visulands project
  • Future directions
• Other news:
  • The Neroche Forest Project
• Conferences:
  • Bramble in woodland - bane or benefit
• Publications:
  • Habit use by red and grey squirrels

Issue 31.

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September 2005 ^(PDF-450K)

• Programme group research update - Conservation & management of species & genetic resources:
  • Grey squirrel damage prediction: interim progress
  • Molecular genetics of native tree species
  • Research in support of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species - 1: new work in 2005
  • Research in support of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species - 2: Argent & Sable moth
• Publications:
  • Evaluating biodiversity in fragmented forest landscapes: principles

Issue 30.

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July 2005 ^(PDF-425K)

• Research update:
  • Wet woodland
  • William’s Cleugh pines
  • West Highland woodland grazing project
• Conferences:
  • Botanical Society of Scotland - Symposium on Atlantic Oakwoods

Issue 29.

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May 2005 ^(PDF-152K)

• Research update:
  • Ecology Division
  • William’s Cleugh pines
  • Wood ants in Thetford Forest/East Anglia
• Conferences:
  • Woodland Birds conference in 2006

Issue 28.

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