Biological Records Centre

Steep Holm Island, Bristol Channel, UK: evidence of Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 (lesser black-backed gull) feeding on the invasive signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus Dana, 1852

Read more about Steep Holm Island, Bristol Channel, UK: evidence of Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 (lesser black-backed gull) feeding on the invasive signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus Dana, 1852

Lepidoptera communities across an agricultural gradient: how important are habitat area and habitat diversity in supporting high diversity?

Read more about Lepidoptera communities across an agricultural gradient: how important are habitat area and habitat diversity in supporting high diversity?

A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The shieldbugs and allied families (Coreoidea, Pentatomoidea & Pyrrhocoroidea). Natural England Commissioned Report NECR190.

Read more about A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The shieldbugs and allied families (Coreoidea, Pentatomoidea & Pyrrhocoroidea). Natural England Commissioned Report NECR190.

A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Bugs (Dipsocoromorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha). Natural England Commissioned Report NECR188.

Read more about A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The Aquatic and Semi-aquatic Bugs (Dipsocoromorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha & Nepomorpha). Natural England Commissioned Report NECR188.

iRecord App

The iRecord App enables you to get involved with biological recording. Contribute your species sightings with GPS acquired coordinates, descriptions and other information, thus providing scientists with important new biodiversity information that contributes to nature conservation, planning, research and education.

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Silphidae Recording Scheme

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Clown Beetles Recording Scheme

Read more about Clown Beetles Recording Scheme

Agricultural management and climatic change are the major drivers of biodiversity change in the UK

Read more about Agricultural management and climatic change are the major drivers of biodiversity change in the UK

BRC Meeting January 2016

Picture of Bombus humilis (Martin Harvey), which has undergone a major decline in its distribution, foraging on red clover Trifolium pratense

Biological Records Centre meeting on the challenge of recording and monitoring rare and restricted species

16^th January 2016, CEH Wallingford, #BRCRareSpecies

BRC brought together a group of 75 specialists from recording schemes, government agencies and research organisations to review approaches to recording and monitoring rare and restricted species in the UK. The day’s meeting reviewed existing monitoring approaches and discussed the potential of alternative survey designs and analysis of existing data. Du