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Full member of the Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (IEEM)


2010 Newsletter

Newsletters


Workshops


MSc (Distinction) 2003: Habitat Quality in Constructed Wetlands as part of a Sustainable Urban Drainage System


Robert Aquilina


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Coleopterists Society

Dipterists Forum

Flora Locale

Freshwater Biological Association

Freshwater Life

Specialising in all aspects of freshwater, brackish and wetland ecology

Full member of the Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (IEEM)

  • Biodiversity checklist / Ecological survey / Protected Species assessment for planning applications.

  • Freshwater habitat assessments using standard survey techniques.

  • Macroinvertebrate identification to species level, interpretation and management recommendations.

  • Wildlife pond design, restoration, mitigation and assessment.

  • Species specific surveys, including Great Crested Newts, Water Voles, Badgers, reptiles.

  • Training courses & Workshops


Environment Agency accredited River Habitat Surveyor experienced in carrying out RIVPACS and PSYM surveys. 

Natural England protected species licences for Sand Lizard, Smooth Snake, Great Crested Newt, Crayfish and Fairy shrimp (Chirocephalus).


Freshwater Recorders Group for Dorset

Robert is the Freshwater Recorder for Dorset and has set up a Freshwater Recording Group.

Records (inverts & fish) and enquiries are welcomed [email Robert]


Training Courses & Workshops

13 July 2011

Flora Locale - Pond Creation and Management in Oxford, more

Identifying Freshwater Macroinvertebrates to BMWP family level [IEEM] - 2011 dates to be arranged

Freshwater macroinvertebrate identification, Great Crested Newt survey techniques, Dragonfly identification - 2011 dates to be arranged

Freshwater Survey and Identification (a new 3-4 day course covering plants, invertebrates, amphibians and management) - details yet to be posted

Articles

2010  

An assemblage of Coleoptera from ponds on Povington Heath, Dorset in The Coleopterist 19(1), April 2010

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2010  

Ponds project reveals rarities beyond the barbed wire in Dorset Wildlife Trust magazine, Spring 2010

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2007  

Effect of wetting-up ditches on emergent insect numbers in Aspects of Applied Biology 81

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2006

Stratiomyidae from agricultural ditches in Leicestershire (Bulletin of Dipterists Forum)

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Example reports

2009

Ecological survey of a pond at Fontmell Magna, Dorset

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2008

Bourne Valley Park (Alderney Recreation Ground, Poole: Follow-up ecological survey

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2005

Alderney Recreation Ground, Poole: Baseline ecological survey

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2005

Ecological Survey of the Bourne Stream in the Bourne Valley SSSI, Poole, Dorset.

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© 2010 Robert Aquilina

Photographs © Robert Aquilina

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