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



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

Links
Coleopterists Society
Dipterists Forum
Flora Locale
Freshwater Biological Association
Freshwater Life |
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Specialising in all aspects of
freshwater, brackish and wetland ecology

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Biodiversity
checklist / Ecological survey / Protected Species assessment for
planning applications.
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Freshwater habitat assessments
using standard survey techniques.
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Macroinvertebrate identification to
species level, interpretation and management recommendations.
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Wildlife pond design, restoration, mitigation and assessment.
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Species
specific surveys, including Great
Crested Newts, Water Voles, Badgers, reptiles.
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Training courses &
Workshops
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Environment
Agency accredited River Habitat Surveyor experienced in
carrying out RIVPACS and PSYM surveys. |
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Natural
England protected species licences for Sand Lizard, Smooth
Snake, Great Crested Newt, Crayfish and Fairy shrimp (Chirocephalus). |
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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] |
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Training Courses & Workshops |
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13 July
2011
Flora
Locale - Pond
Creation and Management
in Oxford,
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Identifying
Freshwater Macroinvertebrates to BMWP family level [IEEM]
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2011
dates to be arranged |
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Freshwater
macroinvertebrate identification, Great Crested Newt survey
techniques, Dragonfly identification
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2011 dates to be arranged |
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Freshwater
Survey and Identification (a new 3-4 day course covering
plants, invertebrates, amphibians and management)
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yet to be posted |
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Articles |
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2010 |
An assemblage of
Coleoptera from ponds on Povington Heath, Dorset in The Coleopterist
19(1), April 2010 |
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200kb |
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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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110kb |
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2006 |
Stratiomyidae from
agricultural ditches in Leicestershire (Bulletin of Dipterists Forum) |
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140kb |
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Example
reports |
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2009 |
Ecological survey of a
pond at Fontmell Magna, Dorset |
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139kb |
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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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550kb |
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2005 |
Ecological Survey of the
Bourne Stream in the Bourne Valley SSSI, Poole, Dorset. |
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460kb |
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