Judy Webb
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Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Oxfordshire
Joined November 2015
@CliveMcKay1 @friendlyevalley @Freshwaterhabs Yes. Find me on Blu eSk y, I no longer share techniques here...
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@newforestfoe @BSBIbotany @NEThamesSolent @TVERC1 @WildOxfordshire Paste name in search function? works for me
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@DredgeUp How seeds disperse, what encourages germination in wild, do they have any survival in a seed bank? ie do seeds last longer than a year in the soil? How long lived is each plant,how deep down can its roots go?
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Another fabulous ancient tree - this time a Linden (lime)
Kaiser Lothar Linde - Königslutter am Elm, Germany Large-leaved Lime (Tilia platyphyllos) Photo: Rainer Lippert
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@Billericay_AG Apart from loss of that green....There can't be development next to an ancient woodland without damage to that woodland, whatever claims developers make.
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To be in one place for 1000 years. And just think of all the invertebrate life inside that rotting hollow trunk. An ecosystem in a single tree.
🎉1️⃣🍾 Nº 1 on the daily year-end countdown of Sweden’s 🇸🇪 stoutest Oaks is Kvilleken! It’s considered to be Sweden's oldest and largest tree, if not the largest oak in all of Europe in terms of girth. It measures 14 meters in circumference and is at least a thousand years old.
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RT @friendlyevalley: For our last post on this site (see Pinned Tweet), we leave you with this view down the Valley from this morning short…
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My best #fly this year, as it is in most yrs - one of my 'Adopted Species' I monitor and study within the Dipterists Forum, a female Clubbed General #Soldierfly Stratiomys chamaeleon. Brillant wasp mimic & very rare. In June at #Cothillfen in Oxon.
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RT @friendlyevalley: Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) is more common in the west, but Scarce in Oxon. Ours reappeared from the seedbank af…
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@NatDuffus interesting thread
A recent report by @WildJustice_org suggests that developers aren’t delivering promised environmental outcomes on new developments. So I thought I’d put it to the test on a newish housing site close to me. A 🧵
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RT @friendlyevalley: Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and Season's Greetings to those who don't! Much too mild today for snow, so…
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It's not real snow, but it looks snowy & sort of Christmassy to me. From May-June, flowering in a few of our amazing ancient calcareous, alkaline spring fens in Oxon: the Broad-leaved Cotton-grass Eriophorum latifolium. Merry Christmas followers! Now find me where the Sky is Blue
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Lovely music to cheer you up on the darkest of mornings on the shortest day of the year
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Biodiversity is in collapse. BNG is not fit for purpose and is causing ecocide. We need to stop developing our most valuable sites for wildlife in the uncertain hope of 'creating' replacement wildlife somewhere else, some time in the future...
Although it's new, BNG needs urgent review. The weaknesses are ones we flagged from the outset: 🏡Enforcement is failing so promised gains never appear. 🏠The 10% gain requirement isn't enough to contribute to nature recovery 🏘️Huge loopholes are leave many developments exempt.
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Mild weather means #fungi can still emerge. A massive fruiting of white saddles Helvella crispa on a road verge near me in leaf litter under old oaks (202 fruitbodies counted). And some Blewitts, poss Lepista nuda but pale. Chances of getting a Road Verge Nat Res for fungi ??
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RT @ChrisGPackham: Housing developers record when it comes to implementing environmental and ecological mitigation is woeful . They just ca…
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What hope for our wildlife with these Labour plans!
It is WORSE than this as Labour is actually asking councils to build 1.85 m homes PLUS new towns of over 10,000 homes. Instead we need a approach Over 7000 people have already sent it to their MP
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RT @friendlyevalley: To celebrate the brief appearance of the sun today, here's an archive photo of the Lye Valley with a winter sunset for…
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