



In March 2024 we held a practitioners panel at Norbury Park where we discussed:
- How much diversity is “enough”?
- Managing diverse woodlands
- Stakeholder perceptions, objectives and attitudes to diversity
- How many species use Scots pine and Stika spruce?
An illustrated summary of our discussion can be seen in these four drawings




In September 2023 we held a practitioners panel at Mar Lodge estate where we discussed:
- How much diversity is “enough”?
- Managing diverse woodlands
- Stakeholder perceptions, objectives and attitudes to diversity
- How many species use Scots pine and Stika spruce?
An illustrated summary of our discussion can be seen in these four drawings
Putting practitioners at the heart of DiversiTree
At its essence, DiversiTree is a collaboration between academics and practitioners. One of the ways we are ensuring those who are at the coalface of woodland management have a voice in DiversiTree, is by convening a Practitioners Panel. The Panel will meet in-person four times throughout the project to engage in field-based 360 learning, to scrutinise, test feasibility and enhance the implementation of findings from the project. The Practitioners Panel is made up of individuals with in-depth and diverse experience of woodland management for a range of different objectives and priority outcomes. See the latest graphical outputs from our Practitioners Panel meeting below. Thank you to National Trust for Scotland and Norbury Park for hosting the events, and to Holly McKelvey for producing these outputs.
Outputs
Impact and Insight notes (They are designed to be accessible for policymakers and practitioners to both understand the research and apply recommendations from it, 2 pages)
- Diversifying woodland through grants: Treescapes Impact & Insights Note 2
- Diversifying tree species composition within Scots pine forests – will it provide resilience for forest associated biodiversity? Treescapes Impact & Insights Diversitree note 3
- Diversifying tree species composition within Sitka spruce forests – implications for biodiversity Treescapes Impact & Insights Diversitree note 2
Research notes (longer notes giving more detail on the data behind the Impact and Insight notes)
Peer reviewed publications
- The concept of woodland diversity: a review by Norman Dandy, Seumas Bates and Zoe Pearson QJF pages_July 2024_Final copyright stamped.indd
Videos
- Summary video youtu.be/tsU6IkOzewM
- Scots pine video youtu.be/WV5aIzdE4sY
- Sitka spruce video youtu.be/B7KADuOsrxY
- Management for tree species diversification video youtu.be/DSRDBKVLvVU
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Additional Knowledge exchange: In addition to the knowledge exchange occurring within this project, this project is one of three Future of UK Treescapes projects that are part of the Tree of Knowledge: community the complexity of forest resilience.”