Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

Taxonomic Group (English)
Flowering plants & ferns
Taxonomic Group (Scientific)
Tracheophyta
Scheme Organiser
Kevin Walker
Email Address
kevin.walker@bsbi.org
Address

Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, regd. office: WMT LLP Chartered Accountants, 4 Beaconsfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 3RD

About the scheme

The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland is for everyone who is interested in the flora of Britain and Ireland. We welcome both professional and amateur members. The society is the biggest and most active organisation devoted to the study of botany in Britain, Ireland, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man.

The Plant Atlas 2020, produced by the BSBI, is the most in-depth survey of the British and Irish flora ever undertaken. It builds on two previous plant distribution atlases published by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century and will serve as an essential resource for the study and conservation of our wild plants and their vitally important habitats for decades to come.

Thousands of botanists spent 20 years recording wild and naturalised plants across Britain and Ireland. They collected more than 30 million records which fed into the Plant Atlas 2020 website, book and summary reports.

Record Cards / Digital Recording Form

Atlases

Stroh Peter A., Walker Kevin J., Humphrey Thomas A., Pescott Oliver L, Burkmar R.J. (2023) Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora. Princeton University Press, .
Stace Clive A, Preston Christopher D., Pearman David A. (2015) Hybrid flora of the British Isles. Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Bristol .
Newton A., Randall R. D. (2004) Atlas of British and Irish brambles. Botanical Society of the British Isles., London .
Preston Christopher D., Pearman David A., Dines T.D. (2002) New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora. Oxford University Press, Oxford .
Jermy Anthony C, Arnold Henry R, Farrell Lynne, Perring Franklyn H. (1978) Atlas of ferns of the British Isles. Botanical Society of the British Isles and British Pteridological Society, London .
Perring Franklyn H., Walters S M. (1968) Critical supplement to the atlas of the British flora. Nelson, London .
Perring Franklyn H., Walters S M. (1962) Atlas of the British flora. Nelson, London .

References

Boyd Robin J., Powney Gary D., Burns Fiona, Danet Alain, Duchenne François, Grainger Matthew J., Jarvis Susan G., Martin Gabrielle, Nilsen Erlend B., Porcher Emmanuelle, Stewart Gavin B., Wilson Oliver J., Pescott Oliver L. (2022) ROBITT: A tool for assessing the risk-of-bias in studies of temporal trends in ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, n/a,
Leaney Bob, Parmenter Jo, Pescott Oli (2021) Eremopoa persica (Trin.) Roshev. (Persian meadow-grass) re-found in Britain after a 60-year absence. BSBI News, Botanical Society of Britain \& Ireland, 148, 47-50
August Tom A., Pescott Oliver L., Joly Alexis, Bonnet Pierre (2020) AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery. Patterns, , 1,
Maskell Lindsay C., Henrys Peter, Pescott Oliver L., Smart Simon M. (2020) Long-term trends in the distribution, abundance and impact of native “injurious” weeds. Applied Vegetation Science, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 23, 635-647
Pescott Oliver L., Jitlal Mark (2020) Reassessing the observational evidence for nitrogen deposition impacts in acid grassland: spatial Bayesian linear models indicate small and ambiguous effects on species richness. PeerJ, , 8, e9070
Pescott O. L., Powney G. P., Walker K. J. (2019) Developing a Bayesian species occupancy/abundance indicator for the UK National Plant Monitoring Scheme. , , Wallingford ,
Hayhow D.B., Eaton M.A., Stanbury A.J., Burns F., Kirby W.B., Bailey N., Beckmann B., Bedford J., Boersch-Supan P.H., Coomber F., Dennis E.B., Dolman S.J., Dunn E., Hall J., Harrower C., Hatfield J.H., Hawley J., Haysom K., Hughes J., Johns D.G., Mathews F., McQuatters-Gollop A., Noble D.G., Outhwaite C.L., Pearce-Higgins J.W., Pescott O.L., Powney G.D., Symes N. (2019) State of nature 2019. , State of Nature Partnership, ,
Pescott Oliver L., Humphrey Thomas A., Stroh Peter A., Walker Kevin J. (2019) Temporal changes in distributions and the species atlas: how can British and Irish plant data shoulder the inferential burden?. British \& Irish Botany, Botanical Society of Britain \& Ireland, 1, 250-282
Pescott Oliver L., Walker Kevin J., Harris Felicity, New Hayley, Cheffings Christine M., Newton Niki, Jitlal Mark, Redhead John, Smart Simon M., Roy David B. (2019) The design, launch and assessment of a new volunteer-based plant monitoring scheme for the United Kingdom. PLOS ONE, , 14, e0215891
Pescott O. L., Walker K. J., Jitlal M, Smart S. M., Maskell Lindsay C., Schmucki R., J. Day, C. Amos, K Peck, A. Robinson, Roy David B. (2019) The National Plant Monitoring Scheme: A Technical Review. , , ,