Dr Sam Green (WildFish) explains how SmartRivers is empowering communities and organisations to use freshwater invertebrate populations to monitor river health.
Category Archives: Biological recording
The State of the UK’s Butterflies: Are Conservation Efforts To Save Our Butterflies Working?
Dr Richard Fox (Butterfly conservation) presents the latest information coming from decades of monitoring the UK’s butterfly populations.
Slipping Under the Radar: Recording Slugs in British Gardens
Dr Imogen Cavadino (Newcastle University and Royal Horticultural Society) showcases how citizen scientists have helped further our knowledge of slugs in British gardens.
Team PollinATE: Feeding People and Pollinators
Dr Beth Nicholls (University of Sussex) discusses a citizen science project that worked with allotment holders and investigated pollination and urban food production.
The Rothamsted Insect Survey NBRI: From Microscopes to Machine Learning
Dr James Bell (Rothamsted Research) explores the Rothamsted Insect Survey and how their 50+ year aphid and moth datasets inform scientists, policy makers and conservationists.
Riverflies: The Canary of Our Rivers
Trine Bregstein (Freshwater Biological Association) provides an overview of the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative methodology, sharing the progress of the project, looks at some case studies and what’s in store for the future.
FSC BioLinks: Biological Recording & Training Consultation
The FSC BioLinks project consultation surveyed biodiversity sector professionals and amateur naturalists regarding where biological recording training should be focused, which species groups it should focus on and how it should be delivered.
Water Beetles: Recording & Atlases of Britain & Ireland
Prof Garth Foster (Balfour-Browne Club) explains the history (and future) of recording water beetles in Britain and Ireland.
Autumn 2023: ID Training Courses in London
Check out our London species identification training programme for Autumn 2023! Join us to learn about botanical keys, earthworms, ferns, fungi, mining bees and winter plant ID.
The Tale of the Ivy Bee: A New British Species
Aaron Bhambra (University of Birmingham) tells the story of a new species of bee to colonise Britain and the research being undertaken to monitor it.
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