The 2020 BRC recording schemes meeting took place on 7 March at a new location and indeed a new country for this meeting! We are most grateful to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh for hosting us, and in particular to Ashleigh Whiffin and her colleagues for providing lots of support to set up the event and help ensure that it ran smoothly on the day.
The winners of the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2019 have been announced!
Biological records, including those collated by the national recording schemes, are one of the strands of evidence used to generate the UK government's 'biodiversity indicators'. The latest indicators were published by Defra in early September, and further information on how the indicators are generated can be found on the JNCC website.
Overall records progress
The numbers of records being submitted via iRecord and the other sites that share the same data warehouse continues to increase, as does the number of verifications being carried out, records incorporated into recording scheme datasets and shared via the NBN Atlas. A very big thank you to everyone who has contributed records and verifications.
We are also pleased to note the publication of Cambridgeshire’s mosses & liverworts – a dynamic flora by ex-BRC botanists Chris Preston and Mark Hill. Based on a survey undertaken by local bryologists between 2000 and 2018, Preston and Hill exhaustively analyse and report on Cambridgeshire’s bryoflora.
BRC is working with Rothamsted Research and Butterfly Conservation to produce updated moth trends for UK macro-moths using the extensive data from the light trap network that forms part of Rothamsted Research’s Insect Survey. The light trap network monitors nocturnal moths across the UK, using a collection of standardised moth traps that are run every night of the year.
