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The Biological Records Centre (BRC) was set up in 1964 by the Nature Conservancy (UK) at its recently opened Monks Wood Experimental Station near Huntingdon. [1] BRC developed from the Atlas of the British Flora project of the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) to map the distribution of British (and Irish) flowering plants, [2] [3] which had established basic principles for ...
rECOrd is a Local Biological Records Centre (LRC) serving Cheshire, Halton, Warrington and Wirral (including the vice-county 'pan-handle' boundary around Stockport) - 'The Cheshire region'. It provides a local facility for the storage, validation and usage of Cheshire-based biological data under the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) project.
The Northamptonshire Record Office is the county record office for Northamptonshire. The archives are held at Wootton Hall Park, Wootton, Northampton, and run by Northamptonshire County Council. [1] The site also houses the Northamptonshire Record Society.
In the UK biological recording is a popular hobby and much is organised by national recording schemes for many taxonomic groups of which almost 90 are registered with the national Biological Records Centre. [3] At a national level biological records are managed by the Biological Records Centre, originally set up at Monks Wood Experimental ...
The Northamptonshire Record Society is a text publication society for the English county of Northamptonshire. It was established in 1920 by Joan Wake . [ 1 ] The society is based at Wooton Hall Park in Northampton, with the Northamptonshire Record Office .
Most of this effort is voluntary and is organised through about 2,000 national societies and recording schemes. The UK government through its agencies also collects biodiversity data and one of the principal elements for the collation and interpretation of this data is the network of Local Environmental Records Centres. [3]
Collyweston Great Wood and Easton Hornstocks is a 151.5-hectare (374-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of King's Cliffe in Northamptonshire. [1] [2] The site is a National Nature Reserve [3] and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] The site is 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) west of Peterborough and the nearest villages are Collyweston, which is 1 kilometre (0.62 ...
Perring was head of the national Biological Records Centre based at Monks Wood from 1964 to 1978. In the late 1970s he was instrumental in initiating the move towards the creation of smaller, more regional biological records centres across the UK. [5] He also played a key role in the development of the modern Wildlife Trust movement. [6]: 203