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Phase II Vegetation Survey Training Course

Event details:

  • Start: 7 May 2010 - 09:00 am
  • End: 8 May 2010 - 05:00 pm
  • Location: Colwyn Bay
  • Venue: Penrhos Manor, Oak Drive

Phase II Vegetation Survey Training

Background

Assigning nationally-accepted categories to vegetation communities is important for conservation and land management. It is also increasingly useful in Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), and therefore has a place in developments where landscaping is required to create wildlife habitat. Before a category can be assigned, the data must first be collected.

Course overview

This course looks at ways of collecting and analysing vegetation.

Who should attend?

You don’t need to be a botanist, but a basic knowledge of wild plants will be useful. Whether you are considering managing moorland for grouse, working out the mowing regime of a road verge to maintain herb-rich grassland, or calculating how many credits a BREEAM-assessed housing development can achieve, this course will help.

Course content

Day 1 morning:

  • Reasons of collecting data:
    • Assign a classification to vegetation communities
    • Provide a baseline for habitat management
    • Monitoring change in habitats
    • Ecological component of BREEAM assessments
    • Supporting wider conservation strategies
  • Survey techniques:
    • Performance Indicators (PI’s) & Common Standards
    • Attributes within a radius
    • ‘Walkabout’ recording
    • Quadrats: the basic field survey unit
  • Methods of collecting data
    • % cover
    • DOMIN values
    • The Braun-Blanquett scale
    • The National Vegetation Classification (NVC)
      • What is it?
      • How does it work?

Day 1 afternoon:

  • Grassland NVC
    • Trial plots in the lawn
    • Some common grasses – an I.D.session
    • Trial data collection & analysis

Day 2 morning:

  • Field visit: the Great Orme
    • Some common plants of the Great Orme – an I.D. session
    • Trial plots and data collection using three methods

Day 2 afternoon:

  • Data entry and analysis
    • Discussion of results

Booking

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Notes

  • The course is non-residential, and runs from 09:00 to 17:00 on 7th and 8th May at Capita Symonds' offices - Penrhos Manor, Oak Drive, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7YW
  • The course costs £170 per person, payable by cheque to 'Capita Symonds Ltd'

Phase II Vegetation Survey Training

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