Conservation & Ecology
Interesting aspects of the conservation and ecology of lichens in the region will be put up here.
Species Listed from a Fallen Beech in the New Forest
In the early spring of 2010 Neil Sanderson came across a recently fallen old Beech at The Ridge, Busketts Wood that had an interesting looking lichen flora on its trunk. The whole tree was recorded by Neil and Andy Cross over four visits in March and April 2010 (1st March, 6th March and 3rd and 10th April). The survey and the results are described in an article by Cross & Sanderson in the British Lichen Society Bulletin, 111, Winter 2012, 54 - 60. The full species list for the tree is put up on this website Link
New Forest Heathland Lichen Survey
I last looked at the lichens of the New Forest heathlands seriously with Francis Rose in the 1990s. In the autumn of 2011, however, a contract recording lichens in randomly chosen plots on the heathlands for the Natural History Museum (NHM) as part of their New Forest Quantitative Inventory concentrated my attention on the New Forest heaths. The result has been a cascade of exciting finds, which will be detailed on the Heathland Lichens section. The quantitative inventory work on the heaths has stimulated an on going survey of the New Forest heathland lichens by 1km square, run on a voluntary basis by Neil Sanderson. This aims to cover 25% of the heathland. Details (page under construction)