Lucy Ridding

Spatial ecologist interested in GIS, wildlife and conservation.

[Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @RGS_IBG]

🗺️ In our latest geovisualisation, Josep Serra Gallego, a Spatial Data Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (@UK_CEH), shares how he and his fellow researchers produced the most comprehensive map of hedgerows across England.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/SvLrM8gwA8

[Emily Upcott @emily_upcott]

I’m delighted to share our new paper on the implications of marsh harrier hunting and diet on breeding waders, after this (and more) being the body of my MSc dissertation 9(!) years ago at @UniKent with @RSPBScience https://t.co/eVAW05ix3z 1/9

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

Calcareous grasslands are increasingly threatened by the dominance of tor grass – 📢our new paper examines methods for its control including the use of 1) herbicides & seeding and 2) cutting & grazing https://t.co/8kWjjOy19H

[UKCEH @UK_CEH]

NEW! We've created the most comprehensive map of England's #hedgerows to date!

💡 390,000km of hedgerow on field boundaries
📏 Depicts hedgerow length & height (for 1st time!)
🔎 Reveals areas with highest & lowest hedgerow densities

Read more: https://t.co/lgmOc8uecB 1/🧵

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

For a summary of this work, check out our @JEcology blog post🌱https://t.co/AleMbWCdmV

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

📢Our new paper published in @JEcology

Vascular plant and bryophyte succession on bare chalk – only some plant traits were found to influence abundance through succession, but these were sometimes contrary to the expected pattern

Find out more here:
https://t.co/VXlMypm3v1

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for #bryophytes & vascular #plants? Evidence from a 33-year chronosequence on bare chalk👇
@LRidding @sacrevert https://t.co/f9na5iZ1Dv

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

📢Our new paper published in @JEcology

Vascular plant and bryophyte succession on bare chalk – only some plant traits were found to influence abundance through succession, but these were sometimes contrary to the expected pattern

Find out more here:
https://t.co/VXlMypm3v1

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

📢New job alert 📢
Do you have good GIS skills? Interested in sustainable land management?
Come and join our spatial ecology team at @UK_CEH
https://t.co/jreayCO3tU

[Danny Hooftman @DannyHooftman]

We used the universal law of human mobility to map #nature-based #recreation in the #UK: https://t.co/6AAhxFt9MT. It also makes a great proxy for access to many other #ecosystemservices. @UK_CEH @BritishEcolSoc @Simon_Willcock @RedheadGIS @IPBES @LRidding

[Oli Pescott @sacrevert]

Very useful paper led by @OliJWilson here; happy to have been able to be a part of it, and to have been able to demonstrate the future use of @theNPMS #data for investigating climate change impacts. Thanks also @BBCRadio4 for having me on #Today to talk about it early this am

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

Great thread highlighting the range of #grassland research at @UK_CEH

[John Redhead @RedheadGIS]

After the grasslands episode of #WildIsles, here's brief selection of just some of the research by @UK_CEH colleagues on these amazing habitats...🧵1/6

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

Great overview of all the research made possible thanks to Ronald Good and the Dudley Stamp Map

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Land use and species data from the 1930s have allowed us to do a long series of papers on historical ecology

In the 1st we presented the first direct evidence of taxonomic homogenisation in the UK showing this as a cause of woodland biodiversity loss
https://t.co/rsSBUpQC3J

[BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland @BSBIbotany]

#BSBIAtlas2020 is now live, so check out this fabulous website: https://t.co/ZNf5ZYBpHo
Find out which of these species👇 is doing well & which is declining - and why.
Read about the #PlantAtlas project & download summary reports about our changing flora: https://t.co/1K7IKvGjB3

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

Only a few days left to contribute to this short survey....

[UKCEH @UK_CEH]

Help to inform future research in agroecology and regenerative #farming! Please contribute to a short survey to tell us about your research initiatives and networks, for a Defra-funded project.

➡️ https://t.co/gbE90Ey7pL

Survey closes 20th February⏳

[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

Excited to see our article published in @EcographyJourna's issue today! We find a negative habitat amount effect in the 1930s for calcareous grassland and heathland, but not in the 2010s. https://t.co/kwbNZc95eP @BecksSpake @JMBecologist @Sal_Keith

[Deepa Senapathi (she/her) @deepa_sena]

#PhDposition "Reconstructing #bee communities: Role of #nationalparks in supporting #pollination #ecosystemservices" with @UniRdg_SAPD & @UK_CEH @UniRdg_PhD starting Autum 2023. Application Deadline 11 March 2023. Further details https://t.co/DY2ad2zXxR 📷Lucy Hulmes Please RT

[Emily Upcott @emily_upcott]

🌾 Can we see spatial patterns in GB crop rotations?
🌾 How well can we predict the next crop in a rotation?

📢 New paper with @petehenrys @RedheadGIS Susan Jarvis & Richard Pywell @UK_CEH

#CropMap #CropRotation #ASSISTagri #OpenAccess

🔗 https://t.co/YBWuhfHBrN

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[Lucy Ridding @LRidding]

@sb264449 @CLM_magazine @BillyBloodworm @NethergillFarm @AliceGroom2 @RSPBHamWall @FSCBiodiversity @DanesMoss @BSBIbotany @Love_plants @RSPBScience Thanks Stephen! I'm just responding to your email now.

[Conservation Land Management @CLM_magazine]

The Winter issue is now out! Featuring articles on options for reedbed management, botanical change in calcareous grasslands, the future for farm payments in the UK, sustainable grazing levels in the English uplands, and much more...

Subscribe here: https://t.co/l7BRshbyE2

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Historical data contradict the Habitat Amount Hypothesis

We find unexpected negative HA relationships for the 1930s (but positive in 2000s)

We suggest the HAH is undermined by confounding of HA with other landscape variables
Led by @LRidding @BecksSpake
https://t.co/GnzebQf4DE