Biodiversity and Ancient Oaks. The example of High Park, Blenheim
KMIS talk with Aljos Farjon, a world-renowned botanist who worked at the Universities of Utrecht and Oxford and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the taxonomy of the world’s >600 species of conifer. He published 11 books, many of these standard reference texts, and >100 papers on conifers. After retirement Aljos became an HRA at Kew and shifted his research to the native oak trees (just 2 species) in his adopted country England. RBG Kew published his highly acclaimed book Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape in 2017 (2nd edition 2022). He organised and led a comprehensive survey with >60 participants to describe the biodiversity of High Park, Blenheim, the top site for ancient oaks. A book describing the results of these efforts is in press and the present lecture summarises and illustrates the results. In person and onloine.
Time: 18:00 GMT
