Gus Routledge
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Forests, hills, bogs, boreo-temperate-oceanic stuff & everything in them (incl people). Ecologist. Tweets definitely my own.
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Joined April 2015
In case you missed it, @MossyEarth posted the first video about the #MountainBirchProject just over a week ago, where I take Rob out into the hills to do some seed collection & introduce this project that they're funding & I'm leading for @ReforestingScot.
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Lepidozia cupressina was a nice find right by the path on a wee walk at Falls of Foyers, only the second record from around Loch Ness, the first being in 1961 by the notorious D. Ratcliffe.
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Seems this pic I took of myself & Cuilean stood by a patch of mossy stonecrop (Crassula tillaea) at Opinan back in mid September is only the second Wester Ross record of this species. As per usual, growing in a car park.
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Found a new site for Canadian fleabane (Erigeron canadensis) whilst going to get my car washed in Inverness a couple days ago, second Invernesian record of this adventive.
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@Watts_SH @UK_CEH @StirUni @Forest_Research @IapetusDTP @TheBotanics @N_T_S @MarLodgeNTS @scavers_at_wk @AlistairJump @thomasgeorgesim So so exciting!
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Looking for a research project? Keen on trees & the montane environment? Here's an exciting PhD project on "mountain birch" (first job surely will be defining what that even is!) in Scotland!
We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by @UK_CEH, @StirUni & @Forest_Research Apply here:
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@BSBIScotland @Watts_SH @BBSbryology Was indeed! Sarah’s now got better details than I have as I’ve deleted my QField project 😅
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@BSBIScotland @Watts_SH @BBSbryology Scheuchzeria in the same pool! Or at least one of them anyway, 3 pools for majus, colleague found a 4th.
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Attended a great wee workshop last week organised by @PlantlifeScot at @NatureScot Muir of Dinnet NNR looking at the nationally rare aspen bristle-moss (Nyholmiella gymnostoma), also seeing the endangered Nyholmiella obtusifolia & nationally scarce Lewinskya speciosa.
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@_JamieMcIntyre Yeah the beech in there is pretty bad really. If that orange blur was green Rhododendron then it’d be wiped out of there. Maybe should’ve lumped it with the Sitka, hemlock & Doug-fir!
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Head-in-the-sand response to this issue seems to be pretty common. Fortunately there are many trying to work on the issue itself.
The sheer madness of it: virtually nothing can grow in Killarney NP because of invasive sika and goats. But instead of tackling the core problem, allowing the WHOLE ecosystem to thrive, the npws does what? Plants a few trees in guards. Like, just *who* is deciding this stuff??
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@Matt_J_ecology Whaaaaaaaat?! Swear I've seen this somewhere but passed it off as a small, emerging individual of a generally larger species, can't remember where it was. Will know to keep an eye out from now on I guess!
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@bardseyben Really, really bad round here but they’re pretty bad in quite a few places, like round Ceeag Meagaidh & up around central/southeast Sutherland.
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@croftingmannie Ah, aye that seems a bit short-sighted & plays into the hands of the larger landowner, as these things often do 🙄 I could get the dog to try herd a few more on to your croft?
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@croftingmannie Hadn't even heard of it! There's definitely also plenty reds about to shoot too so I don't see why anyone wouldn't want to significantly reduce the Sika population. Who's heading up the scheme you mention?
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