Aquatic Plant ID 2023
This online course will run over roughly 30 of the most common aquatic plants encountered in lowland Britain. It will focus on straightforward features that can be spotted in the field.
Streams, rivers, ditches, ponds and lakes support a huge amount of the UK's plant diversty, and in turn host a huge range of other wildlife. Accurate assessment of this vegetation can be crucial to ecological surveys of these habitats, and in turn provide a wealth of information on the health and conservation value of them.
Aquatic surveys can be challenging, and often require the ability to recognise species from a distance, rather than 'in the hand'. In addition many of the reed-like and floating species can look rather similar at a distance.
This Species Recovery Trust course will include a pre-recorded tutorial, followed by a test then a 45 minute Zoom Q&A session.
Time: 10:00 GMT