Slow development of woodland vegetation and bird communities during 33 years of passive rewilding in open farmland

• Richard K. Broughton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rbrou@ceh.ac.uk

  Affiliations UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6838-9628

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• James M. Bullock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Charles George,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• France Gerard,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Marta Maziarz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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• Wesley E. Payne,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4253-3185

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• Paul A. Scholefield,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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• Daniel Wade,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

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• Richard F. Pywell

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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