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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: H21a
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Monday, 25 October 2010. This year I have been busy doing a big upland National Vegetetion Classification (NVC) survey on a site near where I live, covering about 3,000ha. Its been really hard work doing such a large survey by myself, but at last, I've nearly finished it! My favourite habitat on the site is labelled as 'H21a' in the NVC. This is a habitat that is easy to recognise - heather and/or other dwarf shrubs, with. Here is a close-up showing some red. Posted by J...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: January 2007
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Friday, 26 January 2007. John and I are both professional ecologists and botanists but we started out as amateurs who got obsessed about learning to identify plants. Our idea of a good time on a Friday night is keying out a moss! Now our hobby is also our job. We set up PTYXIS. Durham, Yorkshire and the Scottish borders. We will even travel to far flung places like Shetland and the Isles of Scilly if interesting NVC work is on offer! Want to know what PTYXIS. Schedule 9 ...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: August 2007
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Tuesday, 14 August 2007. I had a horrific shock recently botanising. For the Durham Biodiversity Partnership's fen inventory project. We are locating and surveying as many fen and mire sites in the Durham magnesium limestone natural area as we can by the end of September, focussing on 2nd tier sites rather than SSSIs. Our survey team visited Hetton. To practice the fen condition. Description. Much of it is now MG1 false oat-grass. Is a species-poor M27. Be able to tell i...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: New things to look out for in the autumn
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Monday, 25 October 2010. New things to look out for in the autumn. Quentin Groom sends the following pictures and text about Conyzas:. Conyza canadensis (Canadian Fleabane) first established in the North-east in the 1990s and is now well established in Newcastle, Gateshead and Hexham. Close-up of C. canadensis infloresence. Its taller, hairy cousin C. sumatrensis (Guernsey Fleabane) has become established around the station in Newcastle over the past two years. Nr Haltwh...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: April 2007
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Thursday, 5 April 2007. EYE Project: see the world through different eyes! Can you remember your first wild moment? Perhaps it was catching sticklebacks in a stream or standing on the shoulder of a Cumbrian. Mountain. After that nothing looked the same. Something made you value the natural world. Between the Great North Museum project and the Northumbria. Natural History Society, drawing. Workshops for the project in 2007. Northumbria Natural History Society. 1 or 2 spec...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: Schedule 9 invasive plant identifcation course
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Sunday, 28 November 2010. Schedule 9 invasive plant identifcation course. And now there are 40! Until April 2010, there were only 2 non-native invasive plant species that ecologists doing site surveys for developers really had to worry about finding - Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed. But now 38 species have been added to schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, for which it is a criminal offence to cause to grow in the wild. See www.ptyxis.com. View my co...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: A long week’s botanising in South Northumberland
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Saturday, 9 July 2011. A long week’s botanising in South Northumberland. It is always a great pleasure to visit Northumberland. Compared to the suburbs of Brussels, it is quiet, friendly and interesting. After a year since my last proper recording trip any small glimpse of wild places is a pleasant experience and Northumberland always has a few botanical surprises in store for me. So, I thought I’d share my finds in the hope that someone finds them interesting. The rares...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: March 2007
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Monday, 12 March 2007. Trainee bryophyte surveyors needed! John and I have just spent the weekend at the British Bryological. Ecology group training event for the new bryophyte. This ambitious national survey aims to collect valuable ecological data about widespread moss and liverwort species - information which, amazingly, we just do not have even about very common species! The best way to get started with bryology. Is to learn the widespread, big pleurocarp. Clare's ni...
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog: November 2007
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Ptyxis Ecology - Our Botany Blog. Friday, 16 November 2007. Bogs, farming and bryophytes. We are still surveying, this time on blanket bog in randomly chosen 1km squares scattered across the North Pennines. Natural Area, or at least John is surveying, as I am stuck indoors report writing. The view out the office window isn't bad though (see photo above! The problem with professional. My report this time is v interesting. For environmental reasons as well as more familiar socio. Economic arguments; yet the.
