Does Woodland Restoration Benefit Moths?

Across the UK, a growing number of projects are expanding native woodlands in upland areas using natural tree regeneration. Perhaps the best known example of this is currently underway on the Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms National Park. In this talk, Patrick will explore how moth communities have responded to this ongoing woodland expansion project, and comment more broadly on the benefits of woodland restoration for Lepidoptera diversity.

Patrick Cook is a Senior Ecologist at Butterfly Conservation and PhD student at the University of Stirling. Patrick's main interest is researching how biodiversity responds to nature restoration and he has a particular interest in butterflies and moths. His PhD project investigates how plants and invertebrates respond to the rewilding project at Bamff Wildland in Perthshire and his job involves research and monitoring on scarce butterflies and moths and how they respond to land use change (such as woodland expansion and management).

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