Tom Gittings 1 , George Smith 2 , Mark Wilson 1 , Laura French 2 , Anne Oxbrough 1 , Saoirse O’Donoghue 2 , Josephine Pithon 1 , Vicki O’Donnell 3 , Anne-Marie McKee 2 , Sue Iremonger 2 , John O’Halloran 1 , Daniel Kelly 2 , Fraser Mitchell 2 , Paul Giller 1 1 BIOFOREST Project, Department of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science, University College Cork 2 BIOFOREST Project, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin 3 Coastal and Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork Biodiversity across the forest cycle in ash and Sitka spruce plantations: Comparison of trends between taxonomic groups and management recommendations