09/05/14 - 12/05/14
The National Vegetation Classification (NVC) provides a formal description of British Plant Communities with many practical uses for site assessment and management.
The course will introduce the background to the development of the NVC and visit a wide range of grassland types to demonstrate how the system works.
Participants will be introduced to the standard field survey methodology of the NVC in a range of grassland habitats, use dichotomous keys and computer programmes to aid the assignment of field generated data to units of the NVC and be helped to understand the dynamics of community development especially in relation to edaphic and management factors.
By the end of the course participants will be able to recognise different stands of vegetation in the field, survey a site using an appropriate sampling strategy, present their data in standard NVC format and discuss approaches to the production of an NVC map.
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