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Bio Diversity plan (1 Viewer)

jforgham

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Hi to all,
I have been asked to put together a biodiversity action plan for my village. The request comes from the parish council and while I am more than happy to do it, I thought I would ask for some suggestions as to how to survey 12 square miles.
Does anyone have experience of tackling a project such as this? Any advice welcome.
Have now defined the area, the local geology and have a list of mammal, bird, dragonfly, damselfly, some insects, butterflies that are present. Need to survey bats, moths and trees this year. Moths not too tricky with moth trap etc, but trees could prove difficult. Would I take say 10 specific areas of 100 square yards for example and just survey each tree present, detailling type, height and presumed age?
Hope someone can help and obviously many thanks in anticpation.
best regards,
Jono
 
with the trees i would set up a transect along a specific distance then sample at a set distance apart. Hope that makes sense.
I think with my BAP plan, we didnt discuss age of trees, we just used ID. However when writting up the report we mention for example in a hedgerow which needs to be coppiced to leave the old dead trees to increase invertebrate etc.
 
Hi
Sorry i havnt had the internet i a few days and have travelled back from uni now where my info is stored. When are you going to be donig your survey as i shall not be back at university for a few weeks now. I will try and get it off someone i worked with on the project but im not sure how long that might take
 
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