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BRECOG meeting in the Brecon Beacons
I am organising a short weekend meeting (2-4 March) to undertake Bryophyte Ecology Group (BRECOG) sampling in the Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales. This is an attractive upland area based on Old Red Sandstone (some of it calcareous) and areas of Carboniferous Limestone, including pavement, along the southern edge. We will stay in guesthouse accommodation in the town of Brecon. Please email me for accommodation suggestion and further details. Participants are asked to make their own bookings.
Jeff Bates (Email: j.bates@imperial.ac.uk)
[Surely he means the Brecog Beacons? Ed.]
The Atlas of Bryophytes: time for every bryologist to do their duty
You have
left to submit records for the new Atlas of Bryophytes. Information about the scope and timetable of the project can be found here. Mark Hill has provided us with a spreadsheet and map listing the under-recorded hectads for the British Isles, showing where our recording efforts should especially be directed. By popular request, the map is also available with the vice county boundaries shown here. There is also a zipped spreadsheet showing the 20 most likely missed taxa from the hectads which can be downloaded here.
Accommodation for future meetings
More details about accommodation for the 2012 Spring Meeting in Cumbria and the 2013 Normandy meeting are available on the Forthcoming Meetings page.
BBS Survey of Reproductive Phenology of Common British BryophytesS
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VCmaps program for displaying vice-county distribution data
John Lowell has written a windows-based program for displaying the BBS vice-county bryophyte distribution data on maps. This is very easy to use, comes with the current data, and has the facility to be updated when new data is available. Inside the zip folder which can be downloaded here there is a self-extracting file that will install the program on your computer.
Cumulative Index of BBS Publications 1896-2011 v. 7.01
Thanks to Phil Stanley's hard work, the latest version of his invaluable cumulative index is now available for downloading from his web page (www.pemas.demon.co.uk). The BBS Field Guide is now included as well as up to FB 105 & J Bryol 33). . The format is a searchable pdf file and there are also Google maps showing the locations of Spring & Summer Excursions since 1941.
Mosses and Liverworts of Britain and Ireland: a field guide
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