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UK planning policy safeguards 'irreplaceable habitats' but the term is often applied narrowly to ancient woodland/veteran trees. A wider definition is hidden away in NPPF glossary (gov.uk/guidance/natio…) but why doesn't it mention ancient grassland?

Positioning absorptive root respiration in the #root economics space across woody & #herbaceous #species: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Our amazing #BSBImembers help support our wildflowers, the habitats they live in & the botanists who care for them. There's never been a better time to join us! Become a member in November & you'll enjoy up to 14 months of benefits for the price of 12: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2023/10/bsbi-m…

Our ground-breaking #climatechange experiment at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab has run for 30 full years, but now we need your help to continue Raj Whitlock explains University of Liverpool News Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences #crowdfunding justgiving.com/campaign/buxto…

Lancaster environmental scientist highlights the importance of long-running climate change experiment Lancaster Environment Centre lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/n…

Our maintenance grant provides assistance with the maintenance of #LTEs on our register. This includes equipment repair & infrastructure. We can provide a #SiteMaintenance grant up to £5k. For more information & on how to apply for see bit.ly/ECTGrants

#invasivespecies have much, much further to spread, Henry Häkkinen, Dave Hodgson and I found. #PLOSBiology: Global terrestrial invasions: Where naturalised birds, mammals, and plants might spread next and what affects this process. shorturl.at/kpBZ5. pls RT

🙏🙏🙏Thanks to all who have donated to our #crowdfunding campaign to save the world's longest running #climate change experiment, we've made a fantastic start! justgiving.com/campaign/buxto… Please do donate /spread the word if you have not done so already!

Quite some years ago we wrote a paper showing that restoration for ecosystem services - like carbon capture - could be in conflict with restoration for biodiversity This issue seems even more pertinent now, and our diagram still extremely relevant sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

View towards Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab from the top of Solomon's Temple, #Buxton, fine weather (at last) for plant survey work... Andrew P. Askew Calum McLennan Raj Whitlock

Finally got back to resurvey at Cressbrookdale NNR, Derbyshire, repeating a survey first done in 2008, and found some familiar friends, including bird's foot sedge Carex ornithopoda, and a stand of melancholy thistle Cirsium heterophyllum extending c. 15 m through the grassland

We're monitoring #plants in 240 permanent quadrats to understand how > 30 years of #climatechange treatments have altered #grassland structure and diversity Andrew P. Askew Raj Whitlock Calum McLennan

"For the first time, mainstream organisations incl the National Trust & RSPB will stand beside direct action activists in the #RestoreNatureNow march, as campaigners call on the next government to take “bold” steps to tackle the biodiversity crisis" theguardian.com/environment/ar…

#Rain shelters going on today, in spite of the drizzle, for the 31st annual #summer #drought #climatechange treatment Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab . Great to host Dr Audra Hurst from Natural England at the site too #longterm #ecology Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) Andrew P. Askew

Love the #art in mounting #botanical #plant voucher specimens for #science, here prepared by volunteers Ness Botanic Gardens . We're making similar vouchers to support #genome #sequencing work for #grassland plants Darwin Tree of Life . Brilliant juxtaposition of techniques old and new 🌿🌾

Beautiful day at the top of the Vercors National park with #LivFrance2024 @LivniFrance Raj Whitlock Dr Alice Maher ILIK Saccheri

It was great to welcome #Ecology students from Sparsholt College today for a visit to Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab which included some tuition in plant identification🌱🌿. Matthew Tallis n Raj Whitlock Andrew P. Askew

A cold but dry day yesterday for collecting soil samples from 240 10cmx10cm microsites by Shan Lou and Raj Whitlock (Liverpool University). Raj Whitlock Shan Luo Andrew P. Askew