Exhibits
Electronic copies of many of the posters and other exhibits at the 2024 Scottish Botanists' Conference are available to view and download below:
- Brian Ballinger: The Flora of Bus Stops - while you are waiting for that bus, and Easter Ross town walls - a plant count
- Will Brown: Mapping Rhododendron ponticum: Distribution and pathways of invasive spread in the temperate rainforest zone - poster and full report
- Kirstie Campbell: Sea Buckthorn Scotland display photos; visit the webpage to find out more
- Maria Chamberlain & Chris Jeffree: Geum macrophyllum – an alien that is spreading in Great Britain
- Rebecca Cornwell: Precious Persistence Project; find out more at the Precious Persistence Project webpage
- Ellie Corsie: Nevis Nature Network, a landscape-level nature restoration scheme led by the Nevis Landscape Partnership; learn more at Nevis Nature Network
- Jake Dalzell: Plants and plant communities of Strangford Lough islands
- Liza Downie & Heather McHaffie: posters from the British Pteridological Society on the first record of Asplenium ceterach (Rustyback Fern) on the Isle of Colonsay, and a first mainland Scotland site for Hypolepis ambigua (New Zealand Pigfern). Visit the British Pteridological Society website to learn more about their work
- David Elston: Campaign Cabrach and the Rediscovery of Astragalus glycyphyllos Wild Liquorice at Thornyhive Bay, Kincardineshire
- Luke Gaskell: Peeblesshire plants 2024
- Andy Griffith: the Darwin Tree of Life Project - Scottish sampling highlights from 2024; see Darwin Tree of Life for more information on this ambitious project
- Matt Harding, Michael Jeeves & Jim McCleary: A 20-year resurvey of the nationally rare Ononis reclinata (Small Restharrow) at Port Kemin, Wigtownshire (VC74)
- Matt Harding & Mark Lynes: Highlights of the 2024 Alchemilla workshop at Glen Shee and Fealar Estate (VC89 & 92). Keep an eye on the BSBI field meetings page to find out what training events are running in 2025!
- Ophélie Lasne: Wild Strathfillan, a nature restoration project led by the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs Countryside Trust
- Liz & Alastair Lavery: Biodiversity Survey of Graveyards 2024
- Richard Mabbutt: the Basal Project - building a collection of photographs designed to help with the identification of basal and juvenile leaves of plants in the wild in Britain and Ireland
- Lindsay Mackinlay: The Big Sticky Catchfly Survey - Dumyat, Ochils, Stirling 2024
- Ian McNab & Scottish Wildlife Trust: conference goers may be interested to learn more about the SWT's Ayrshire Nectar Network and Riverwoods projects, find out more about how SWT use conservation grazing, and get recording on SWT reserves
- Aileen Meek: Scottish Outreach Committee activities in 2024
- Chris Miles: Some highlights from the botanical year in Dumfriesshire in 2024; Holy-grass Hierochloe odorata: A new population at Caerlaverock WWT Reserve; Pyramidal Bugle Ajuga pyramidalis at Blacks Hope; Brambles in Dumfriesshire 2024; and Hieracium stenopholidium
- Michael Philip: Malcolm Macneill - Glasgow urban botanist extraordinaire! and the West Central Scotland Botany Network activities in 2024. Learn more and get involved with the network via the West Central Scotland Botany Network webpage
- Sarah Smyth & NatureScot: view the Development of a Scottish plant biodiversity strategy poster, and read the Building a Plant Biodiversity Strategy for Scotland scoping report
- Ian Strachan & Jim McIntosh: Montane Scrub Restoration Feasibility Study, Glen Nevis – some preliminary findings
You can also view a summary of all the exhibits here.
Workshops
Handouts from the Scottish Botanists' Conference workshops can be downloaded below:
- Starting with Euphrasia Identification: training key
- Ferns for beginners
- Introduction to Sphagnum Identification: the British Bryological Society's Sphagnum Key
- How to take photos for Bramble ID
- Using Your Smartphone for Botanical Imaging
- Accompanying paper to the 'Rum Affair' herbarium specimen display: Pearman & Walker (2004) An examination of J. W. Heslop Harrison’s unconfirmed plant records from Rum
To find out more about the BSBI Recording App, head to BSBI: Recording App, and to get started with the BSBI's Distribution Database head to BSBI: DDb.
