Sarah Watts
@Watts_SH
Conservation Manager at #Corrour, PhD researcher @StirBES & Chair of @MontaneWoodland Action Group. Restoration ecology, arctic-alpine flora, #HighMountainTrees
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https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1457180 28-09-2018 21:02:07
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Better air quality monitoring techniques needed to assess the acute impacts of #airpollution on people with #asthma , research by #UofStirling has found. Full story here 👉 brnw.ch/21wDLZS Asthma UK @uk_ceh @iapetusdtp @nercscience @ukri_news @stirlingscience @uk_cleanair
Lovely carpets of deep red #Alpine #Bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpinus) on Ben Hope this week. A classic #montane plant of exposed upland heaths that I never tire of seeing! 🤗
#WildflowerHour #botany #BusmansHoliday
Finished our holiday with a trip to #Forsinard RSPB Scotland. Given current weather conditions this is waterlogging at its best! Great to see such healthy #blanketbog , & I also very much approve of the Dwarf #Birch pin badge!
#Peatland
#TheFlowCountry
#NationalMossDay
Thanks to Kate Holl NatureScot for highlighting the role of grazing management in the recovery of upland tall herbs, during her Bot Soc Scot talk Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Read more about the #restoration of this habitat Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve NTS in our paper: researchgate.net/publication/33…
Join me online on 2nd Nov for this evening webinar with Woodland Trust🌳. I’ll be discussing my #PhD research Stirling Natural Sciences & restoration of the altitudinal #treeline in Scotland 🤗 Featuring GreatTrossachsForest & Glen Finglas + National Trust for Scotland Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve NTS Mountain Woodland Action Group Scottish Forestry Trust
'The life of an animal is not an experiment'
Read our latest feature, by Louise Gray, on why killing a deer is a skill to take seriously – even when in the name of woodland regeneration.
inkcapjournal.co.uk/the-life-of-an…
Twinflowers are one of our rarest pinewood flowers.
Its scent gives it its common Scandinavian names, 'perfume flower' and 'little lily-of-the-valley'.
However, the twinflower doesn't have an MSP #NatureChampion . Can you help us find one?
Find out more
scotlink.org/species/twinfl…
We've begun a new project with Reforesting Scotland to restore mountain birch woodland in Scotland. To introduce the Mountain Birch Project (MBP), project lead Gus explains our aims in a discussion, which you can find on our project page. mossy.earth/projects/the-m…
📷 Gus Routledge
There's a lovely remnant #upland #birchwood to be found on the slopes of Ben Loyal. These trees are showing just how well they can grow in this far north mountain environment, & highlighting the potential for us to have more #birchbelt habitat in Scotland.
#MountainBirchProject
Drumroll please!
We've just made all 24 of our fabulous #BSBIHandbooks , from authors inc Chris Thorogood & Fred Rumsey NHM Botany, available as eBooks!
Check out the eBook collection: bsbi.org/ebooks
Find out more about our Handbooks: bsbi.org/bsbi-handbooks
Gorgeous autumnal colours on the coastal #Aspen at Tongue Bay. This beautiful tree is often restricted to isolated groups, but #conservation work is underway to protect & expand its #woodland extend from shore to mountain slopes 🤗
#PaintingScotlandYellow #Aspen Twitter
Scotland is home to internationally rare temperate #rainforest , that supports rare lichens & bryophytes🌲 🌎
With the publication of the #StateOfNature report, what do the figures mean for Scotland’s rainforest?
Plantlife's Oliver Moore explains here
👉 bit.ly/46zWAdC