Spatial ecologist interested in GIS, wildlife and conservation.
Wallingford, England
Joined January 2012
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Lucy Ridding retweeted
🗺️ 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 👉 rgs.org/about-us/what-is-geo…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
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 doi.org/10.1080/00063657.202… 1/9
ALT Male marsh harrier. Credit: Les Bunyan (rspb-images.com)
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 doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2024.1…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
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: ceh.ac.uk/press/high-tech-ae… 1/🧵
ALT Data sample from Land Cover Plus Hedgerows showing woody boundaries of land parcels/fields colour-coded by height class (blue or green for shorter hedges and red for taller tree lines)
ALT An English hedge in Autumn
ALT A hedge in autumn
ALT Hedgerow map overlaid on Google Earth to show hedge height
For a summary of this work, check out our @JEcology blog post🌱jecologyblog.com/2023/11/25/…
📢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:
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Lucy Ridding retweeted
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for #bryophytes & vascular #plants? Evidence from a 33-year chronosequence on bare chalk👇
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📢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:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
📢New job alert 📢
Do you have good GIS skills? Interested in sustainable land management?
Come and join our spatial ecology team at @UK_CEH
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
We used the universal law of human mobility to map #nature-based #recreation in the #UK: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…. It also makes a great proxy for access to many other #ecosystemservices. @UK_CEH @BritishEcolSoc @Simon_Willcock @RedheadGIS @IPBES @LRidding
Lucy Ridding retweeted
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
New paper from @sacrevert and me in @JAppliedEcology ! We looked at the exposure of the UK's habitats to 20th- and 21st-Century climate changes, and tried to figure out how well our ecological monitoring schemes can help us understand the impacts: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Great thread highlighting the range of #grassland research at @UK_CEH
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
Great overview of all the research made possible thanks to Ronald Good and the Dudley Stamp Map
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
doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.09…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
#BSBIAtlas2020 is now live, so check out this fabulous website: plantatlas2020.org/
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: bsbi.org/plant-atlas-2020
Only a few days left to contribute to this short survey....
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.
➡️ ceh-online-surveys.onlinesur…
Survey closes 20th February⏳
ALT pasture and cows
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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @BecksSpake @JMBecologist @Sal_Keith
Lucy Ridding retweeted
#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 findaphd.com/phds/project/re… 📷Lucy Hulmes Please RT
Lucy Ridding retweeted
🌾 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
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.…
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Lucy Ridding retweeted
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: conservationlandmanagement.c…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Lucy Ridding retweeted
🚨Our spatial ecological modeler post closes on Monday 18th, last chance to get your applications in!
Job opportunity! We're looking for someone with skills in #RStats, #GIS and #dataviz, and an interest in #SustainableAgriculture to join our team! 🌿🗺️🚜
If that's you, find out more here: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CE…