This week on The Lodge Cast, we’re joined by Professor Nigel Willby and Patrick Cook, an ecologist and PhD student, from the University of Stirling, to explore the species group at the base of any food chain: plants 🌱 As the diet source of beavers and the species group critical to forming the mosaic of habitats we find in beaver wetlands, plants were a subject we had to explore in this series. Nigel and Patrick help us unpack: 🌿 The 46% increase in species richness and other findings from thei