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Alice is an entomologist and manages the Forest Trapping Network run by Forest Research. The Forest Trapping Network is a network of insect traps which surveys Great Britain for quarantine and priority tree pests.

Alice joined Forest Research in 2023 having previously worked for UCL as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the effects of farmland pond condition on pollinator communities. She completed a BSc in Zoology at Manchester University in 2014, before undertaking an MRes in conservation at the University of Liverpool in 2015. In 2017, Alice embarked on a PhD studying the functional roles of ants in a savanna ecosystem.

Photograph of staff member

Alice Walker

PhD
Entomologist
Tree health

Alice Holt

Alice Holt Lodge

Wrecclesham

Farnham

Surrey

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Forest Trapping Network (FTN)

The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) is a Great Britain-wide, broad-spectrum surveillance network which monitors for GB priority pest and EU quarantine organisms that other survey methods are unable to detect. The FTN is a rolling programme which will survey 4-6 woodlands within 100 forests for quarantine pests over five years.

Status current
Themes
Tree health

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Publication

Review of the Forest Trapping Network Year One Rollout 2022

The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) forms a major part of GB’s Future Surveillance Plan (FSP). The FSP is a Great Britain-wide, broad-spectrum strategy to monitor quarantine and priority insect pests of forests included in the Plant Health (Phytosanitary Conditions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. The FSP outlines several survey techniques which target species on the […]

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Publications

Walker, A. E., Robertson, M. P., Eggleton, P., Bunney, K., Lamb, C., Fisher, A. M., & Parr, C. L. (2022). Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator. Functional Ecology, 36(12), 2943-2954.

Griffiths, H. M., Ashton, L. A., Walker, A. E., Hasan, F., Evans, T. A., Eggleton, P., & Parr, C. L. (2018). Ants are the major agents of resource removal from tropical rainforests. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(1), 293-300.

Wills, S., Barrett, P. M., & Walker, A. (2014). New dinosaur and crocodylomorph material from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Kilmaluag Formation, Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50(2), 183-190.

Ball, A. D., Job, P. A., & Walker, A. E. (2017). SEM‐microphotogrammetry, a new take on an old method for generating high‐resolution 3D models from SEM images. Journal of microscopy, 267(2), 214-226.