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New Orthotrichum page

A pdf file of Sam Bosanquet's article from British Wildlife on the identification of British and Irish species of Orthotrichum can be found here.

 

Lindbergia available freely online

Papers in Lindbergia can now be freely downloaded from their website www.lindbergia.nu as it has now become an open access journal. There are also links to previous issues.

 

BRECOG Progress Report - June 2010

This can be found on the BRECOG page

 

The Mosses & Liverworts of Pembrokeshire

ISBN 978-0-9552022-1-6 is a 316 page, card-covered book 245x175mm in size.  It includes expansive accounts for all 534 bryophyte species recorded in Vice-county 45, including tetrad distribution maps based on visits to every Pembrokeshire tetrad, and plots of altitudinal range and sporophyte timing.  The ecology of species is covered in greater depth than in most comparable county bryophyte Floras.  The introductory chapters, which account for over 100 pages, cover the history of bryophyte recording in the county, comparisons with the adjacent Vice-counties of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire as well as with the more distant but ecologically similar Cornwall and Caernarvonshire, the biogeography of Pembrokeshire bryophytes and their occurrence in broad habitats, accounts of declining and increasing species, and a review of SSSI bryophyte features in the county.  The book is written in an accessible and colloquial style.  Copies are available direct from the author for £20, or £15 for BBS members, plus £5.50 P&P.  Please contact s.bosanquet at ccw.gov.uk or write to Sam Bosanquet, Cnwc y Llwyn, Brechfa, Carmarthen SA32 7QR.  An invoice including payment details can be emailed to purchasers or posted with a copy of the book.

To view some sample pages click here

 

 

Non-Flowering Plant Group in N.Wales

A new group has been formed to arrange field meetings to study non-flowering plants – initially, at least, concentrating on bryophytes, lichens and pteridophytes.

The first meeting will be at the Pensychnant Environmental Centre, near Conwy, on the 4th August 2010Click here for more details

Electronic data entry cards

Constructed by Mark Hill, these are in the form of Excel spreadsheets that automatically generate an electronic list from field records. For further details click here.

Free online access for members to the Journal of Bryology

We are delighted now to be able to offer free online access to the Journal of Bryology for BBS members. Click here.

Census Catalogue 2008 now published

The new Census Catalogue has now been published and can be ordered online with a credit card or Paypal account for £8.50 including postage and packing to anywhere in the world. For more details click here.

 

BRECOG FAQs

This new document can be downloaded via the BRECOG Page

Gordon Rothero on The Today Programme - yes, really! Listen to Gordon interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on the bryophyte communities of atlantic woodland and Benmore Botanic Garden. Download as an MP3 file here (best to right-click and choose 'save target as') to listen to at your leisure.

A new bryohistory page Click here to visit this page with links to Mark Lawley's papers on the history of British bryologists.

The National Trust have asked if members could help in providing bryophyte records for any of the formal gardens attached to their properties. For more details click here.

A BBS Website first! View the video made by Rachel Davies and John Harding about the BBS Excursion to Whixall Moss during the Autumn Meeting based at Liverpool Museum. Starring Martin Godfrey and Mark Hill, with a special guest appearance from Joan Daniels, Site Manager. Click here (requires Windows Media Player). Windows Vista users might find that John Harding's Flash version works better.

Listen to BBC Radio 4's "The Living World" on bryophytes with Mark Lawley in Mortimer Forest on the Herefordshire/Shropshire border near Ludlow. You can listen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworld.shtml or download as an MP3 (19.7 MB) file here (best to right-click and choose 'save target as') to listen to at your leisure.

A list of orthographic and typographic errors in Smith's flora (2nd ed) has been compiled by Howard Matcham and is available as a text file (147 KB) here. This relates to the first printing of the second edition so does not list the errors in the second printing.





 
 
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