Gregynog Great Wood
The field meeting here on 28 October, led by Neil Sanderson, was a great success. Ten people turned up for the event, and (provisionally) 12 taxa were added to the list for the site, three of these were new to the vice-county (Montgomeryshire) and two were new to Wales. One of the latter (Enterographa sorediata) is a UK BAP priority species.
Neil also discussed the characteristics and management of pasture-woodland and the importance for lichens of having a wide range of niches - facilitated by a varied tree age structure (at Gregynog there is a range from relatively young to very mature trees, to standing and fallen dead trees). "Intra-tree" variation is provided by factors such as leaning trunks, aspect, wound-weeps etc.
Read the full report from Neil Sanderson
View a set of photos by Tim Wilkins from the visit.