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

Roy Helen E., Rorke Steph L., Beckmann B, Booy Olaf, Botham M. S., Brown Peter M. J., Harrower Colin A, Noble David G., Sewell J., Walker Kevin J. (2015) The contribution of volunteer recorders to our understanding of biological invasions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, , 115, 678–689
Stewart Alan JA, Bantock T., Beckmann B, Botham M. S., Hubble David S, Roy D. B. (2015) The role of ecological interactions in determining species ranges and range changes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, , 115, 647–663
Powney Gary D., Rapacciulo Giovanni, Preston Christopher D., Purvis Andy, Roy D. B. (2014) A phylogenetically-informed trait-based analysis of range change in the vascular plant flora of Britain. Biodiversity and Conservation, , 21, 171-185
Stroh P., Leach S J, August T.A., Walker Kevin J., Pearman David A., Rumsey F.J., Harrower Colin A, Fay M F, Martin J P, Pankhurst T, Preston Christopher D., Taylor I. (2014) A Vascular Plant Red List for England. , Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Bristol ,
Powney Gary D., Preston Christopher D., Purvis A., van Landuyt Wouter, Roy D. B. (2014) Can trait-based analyses of changes in species distribution be transferred to new geographic areas?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, , 23, 1009-1018
Preston Christopher D., Hill Mark O, Harrower Colin A, Dines T.D. (2013) Biogeographical patterns in the British and Irish flora. New Journal of Botany, , 3, 96-116
Burns F., Eaton Mark A, Gregory R.D., Fulaij Al, August T.A., Biggs J., Bladwell S., Brereton Tom M., Brooks D.R., Clubbe C., Dawson J., Dunn E., Edwards B., Falk S.J., Gent T., Gibbons D.W., Gurney M., Haysom K.A., Henshaw S., Hodgetts N.G., Isaac Nick J. B., McLaughlin M., Musgrove Andrew J., Noble David G., O’Mahony E., Pacheco M., Roy D. B., Sears J., Shardlow M., Stringer C., Taylor A., Thompson P, Walker Kevin J., Walton P., Willing M.J., Wilson J., Wynde R. (2013) State of Nature report. , The State of Nature partnership, ,
Roy Helen E., Bacon Jim, Beckmann B, Harrower Colin A, Hill Mark O, Isaac Nick J. B., Preston Christopher D., Rathod Biren, Rorke Steph L., Marchant John H., Musgrove Andrew J., Noble David G., Sewell J., Seeley Becky, Sweet Natalie, Adams Leoni, Bishop John, Jukes Alison R, Walker Kevin J., Pearman David A. (2012) Non-Native Species in Great Britain: establishment, detection and reporting to inform effective decision-making. , Defra, ,
McClean Colin J., Berg L.J., Ashmore M.R., Preston Christopher D. (2011) Atmospheric nitrogen deposition explains patterns of plant species loss. Global Change Biology, , , 2882–2892
Brys Rein, Jacquemyn Hans (2009) Biological Flora of the British Isles: Primula veris L.. Journal of Ecology, , 97, 581-600