We highly recommend this upcoming talk at @linneansociety.bsky.social for compelling, evidence-based perspectives on the decline of woodland birds from Dr Richard Broughton 🌳⬇️

What are stakeholders' visions for positive lake futures in the English Lake District?

A new blog post from #UKCEH_AquaEco: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪🌊🐟🚣‍♀️

#freshwater #lake @ukceh.bsky.social

Are you involved in freshwater biodiversity or water quality monitoring and research in the UK?

We're inviting individuals and organisations to complete a survey to help us understand community needs and priorities around monitoring & research.

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...

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A new study from @ukceh.bsky.social using UKBMS data explores the impact of Agri-Environmental Schemes on butterfly abundance, species richness and diversity in England. Some positive relationships uncovered 👍
Learn more here - buff.ly/a0AKpBf
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Combining professional survey data and data gathered from citizen scientists, new research highlights the positive impact of agri-environment schemes on butterfly communities at a landscape scale🦋

@ukceh.bsky.social| @btobirds.bsky.social| @naturalengland.bsky.social| @jappliedecology.bsky.social

While most woodlands had stable soil carbon, plots with ash dieback decreased in carbon - with potentially big implications for woodland carbon sequestration!

The paper is available #openaccess at doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... and further information on the survey here: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

Our paper on the impacts of ash dieback on soil carbon is finally out! 🎉
#soilscience #ashdieback #woodlands

In this, we looked at the changes in soil organic carbon content of ~100 woodlands across GB over the past fifty years.

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NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.

🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social

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Some reflections on the first few days of #INC5.2 negotations in Geneva, towards a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty.

Are the negotiations going well? Frankly, not really, though there are reasons for hope 👇

@ukceh.bsky.social
#PlasticsTreaty #PlasticTreaty #GlobalPlasticTreaty

Land Cover Map 2024 is available now!

The latest in the series of @ukceh.bsky.social Land Cover Maps in raster and vector formats across spatial resolutions! This adds another year to our well established time series!

Land Cover Map 2024 is available through @eidcdata.bsky.social

🧪 A UKCEH Countryside Survey study provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbon in British croplands, after decades of decline.

See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme

Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new paper looking at the impacts of ash dieback and deer grazing upon woodland vegetation is now out!

We found that ash dieback and deer grazing interacted in their impacts upon flora diversity and tree regeneration - and that key species such as bramble mediated a lot of these effects

"This is probably the most sophisticated soil health modelling framework to date…" says Tomislav Hengl, Director of @opengeohub.bsky.social.

Read about our Soil Health Data Cube and why it's set to revolutionise how we manage soil in Europe: ai4soilhealth.eu/new-map-of-s... #SoilHealth

My blog talking about our Harper Prize shortlisted paper is up! I chat about what we found when looking at how the biodiversity of different groups interrelate, and how I ended up in ecology in the first place! 🌿🍄🦠🐦🐝

@ukceh.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social
jecologyblog.com/2025/03/31/f...

It's absolutely amazing to see our paper shortlisted for this year's @journalofecology.bsky.social Harper prize!

#ecology #biodiversity #soilscience @ukceh.bsky.social