Melissa Minter

Good news: Microcarb has successfully launched! 👏
Europe’s first carbon-monitoring satellite is now in orbit, marking a major step in tracking CO₂ emissions from space.
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Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

And Melissa Minter et al. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Visioning future treescapes in upland landscapes: using deliberative processes to understand values and land-use preferences of local stakeholders UK environmental policy places an increasing emphasis on large-scale land-use change, with tree-planting objectives set to contribute towards meeting legislated climate and environmental targets. U...

Featuring work from Alix Syder et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opportunities for Treescape Expansion in Upland Landscapes: Combining stakeholder visioning and spatially explicit land-use scenario planning - LUNZ Hub

Our piece in @lunz-hub.bsky.social blog on combining stakeholder visioning and spatially explicit land-use scenario planning to understand opportunities for treescape expansion🌳research from @uktreescapes.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social STAND project lunzhub.com/resources/op...

If you're interested in monitoring soil biodiversity, eDNA and regenerative agriculture, check out our new study below #soil #farming #nature #science

While stakeholders discussed how livestock production may be a poor proxy for food quality or farm business viability, there was concern among all groups about the impact on upland birds.

We find that increasing tree cover results in positive outcomes for GHG emissions, water-run off, recreation, woodland birds & timber. But we do identify trade-offs with negative outcomes on livestock and upland birds.

We use a combination of Participatory Scenario Planning and spatially-explicit land-use scenarios to predict the consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem services in two upland landscapes: the North Pennines & Dales (England) and the Elenydd (Wales)

Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Our #interdisciplinary paper investigating the synergies and trade-offs of upland treescape expansion is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social which is part of the STAND @uktreescapes.bsky.social project led by the @rspb.bsky.social

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Join the Future of UK Treescapes' STAND project team to hear about their research results on March 18, 11am-12.30pm UK time 🍃 🌎.

#forests #woodlands #netzero

Register here: buff.ly/e76mXlf

Draft agenda 👇

Our Reserve Team have been busy preparing Portrack Marsh for returning Sand Martins, who are due to arrive this month after migratory distances in excess of 4000km!

@teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social

#birds #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife #conservation #nature #sandmartin

Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations....

The moment you've all been waiting for! "Ten practical guidelines for #microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems".
Our #OA paper now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social led by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and #SoilTemp core group

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YouTube video by Future of UK Treescapes STAND: Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes

As part of the UKRI funded Future of UK Treescapes project STAND led by the @rspb.bsky.social, we hosted a webinar back in July on "Understanding stakeholder values and preferences for future UK treescapes" which you can watch on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6l...

#NationalTreeWeek

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