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Resources for recorders

We have a selection of resources available which may be of use to the biological recording community. These include:
  Publications
  Record cards
  Vice county maps (in PDF format )
  Vice County 10km, 2km and 1km square downloads
  NBN Gateway
  100km map
  Species records in Google Earth
  Grid Reference tool (external link)
Gazetteer of Place Names (external link)


Website resources The following resources are available:

  Web page hosting
  Easy NBN distribution maps for enhancing websites simply.
 

Resources for researchers

We also supply information which may be of use to research scientists. This includes:

  Database of Insects and their Foodplants. This database is primarily a collation of published interactions between Great Britain 's invertebrate herbivores (insects and mites) and their host plants.
 

PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish plants. (.zip 1455KB) This dataset was compiled and published in 2004, and last updated in November 2008. Download includes an Excel spreadsheet of the attributes, and a PDF explaining the background and nomenclature. Note that the PDF version is the booklet as published, whereas the Excel spreadsheet incorporates subsequent corrections.
A hardcopy can be purchased from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

 

BRYOATT - Attributes of British and Irish mosses, liverworts and hornworts. (.zip 427KB) This dataset was published in 2007, as a companion to PLANTATT. Download includes an Excel spreadsheet of the attributes, and a PDF explaining the background and nomenclature.

 

Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, by Michael L. Cox. Pisces Publications, Newbury 2007, is available from the publishers.
Supplementary material (.zip 496 KB) is a Word document containing more detailed species accounts.

 

An audit of non-native species in England has been published by English Nature (now Natural England). Download the data behind the report here.

 

A dichotomous key to subfamilies of Ichneumonidae in Britain and Ireland

 

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Female Great Crested Newt (T. cristatus)