This Course has ended. Please click here to see current Courses. or click here to browse our interactive map. Dates and times Fri, 9 May 2014, 1am More info 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 Share this course Copied to clipboard