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Friday 14 November 2014

Just to the west of Glamorgan...

Ten years on (!) from The Mosses and Liverworts of Carmarthenshire and tetrad coverage is now much more complete in VC44.  I have visited all but 103 of the county's 680 tetrads.  The areas of poor coverage are still the far west and mid-northeast: basically any light blue or light green dots are very under-recorded; dark green, brown or yellow are OK.

So lots still to do, but little opportunity.  It's interesting to compare Barry's SN60 with 'my' SN50: 60 to 80 is probably a realistic target for each tetrad, with 100 for the richer squares.
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8 comments:

  1. Barry Stewart15 November 2014 at 09:08

    The eastern half of Carms clearly has some wonderfully rich habitats, but I guess hitting the poorer squares in the west is tougher challenge in some respects, especially so given the size of the county. Saying that, the coverage is quite remarkable given the small number of recorders involved and we still have many busy days ahead if Glamorgan is going to come close to matching what has been achieved in vc44. For the moment, there’s still no sign of pleasure factor waning each time I visit a new tetrad, but then potentially the upland ones should be more interesting and there’s not so many poorer lowland ones left, at least not here in the west.

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  2. Barry Stewart15 November 2014 at 09:13

    To be fair I don't think the lowlands in the east of the county are dull in any way, the local geology indicates there could be plenty interesting stuff to find.

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  3. sambbryo15 November 2014 at 18:43

    My relatively few visits to the Gwent levels have produced stuff like Microbryum floerkeanum and (back when it was rare) Schistidium elegantulum. I think lowland Glamorgan has lots of good things to be found!

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  4. Barry Stewart15 November 2014 at 20:12

    Yes, I must get out of thinking the uplands are where it's all at - even the seemingly barren arable lands of Gower have turned up interesting species such as Entosthodon fascicularis.

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  5. sambbryo16 November 2014 at 19:16

    Good bryophytes can be found ANYWHERE - as Orthotrichum obtusifolium on a street tree in Aberystwyth shows. A far rarer thing is the people who look for bryophytes!

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  6. GMT17 November 2014 at 11:51

    I'd forgotten this wasn't just a Glamorgan blog! Great to hear of the good progress in Carms...

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  7. sambbryo17 November 2014 at 20:10

    I hope that Graham will start posting about his finds in Breconshire (I consider the BBNP to be South Wales).

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  8. Barry Stewart18 November 2014 at 14:52

    Yes I would love to hear about those - I know there is some juicy stuff up in them there hills!

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