Woodland Creation & Ecological Networks (the WrEN project) is a collaboration of academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in ecological restoration. We are using a natural experimental approach to ask questions about how to prioritise actions to restore ecological networks.
In this interdisciplinary project (funded by UKRI through their Treescapes programme) WrEN explore the attitudes of a diverse range of land managers towards woodland creation strategies spanning the planting to natural colonisation continuum. They will also quantify the differing ecological and social consequences of these approaches, and identify factors associated with woodland resilience. Finally, they will integrate their socio-ecological findings to demonstrate how tree planting and natural colonisation can be used in combination to scale-up woodland expansion for a range of objectives on agricultural land.
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