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10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Cost
£90 (£80 concessions)
Course summary

Essential skills for baseline ecological studies and for planning, management and monitoring of sites or habitats.

This course gives a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in available techniques, which are demonstrated via simulations (mainly in practical workshops with some fieldwork). This enables many situations to be considered and the results evaluated. It also removes the necessity to `identify’ species (another valuable skill covered in the course Identifying Flowering Plants). The course covers: types of vegetation classification; how to measure abundance; standard survey methods (a brief Introduction to Phase 1 survey, National Vegetation Classification (NVC); measuring diversity and calculating indices; producing speciesareas curves; measuring association and similarity; sampling strategies; vegetation surveys including planning a survey and collecting data.

Other teachers
Dr Jan Martin
Course type
Specialist

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