Ben

Natural England funded project to collate and generate grassland fungi data for Lancashire. Improve protections through the BHS system and develop spatial models and other tools to spatially identify potential locations for good grassland fungi sites in Lancashire. Links to the community science project on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lancashire-waxcaps

Providing a supporting role in the development of Lancashire's LNRS. Focused on aspects of ecology, data and data methods.

Undertaking Natural England funded project to test and compare methods for modelling connectivity of grassland habitat for different species in the context of Lancashire.

Developing a database of species from multiple taxonomic groups to investigate a multi-taxa approach to habitat/environmental association on large scale. A desk review collating existing available information. Draft and ongoing.

Supporting the development of a State of Nature Report for the Liverpool City Region with a focus on using statistical analysis of species data to derive temporal trends while also working with experts and specialists within the local naturalist and biological recording community to check outputs or provide their own trends and analysis.

A collaboration between Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North Merseyside to work with wildlife recorders to improve information on the abundance and distribution of Brown Hare's in those areas and create resources for ongoing monitoring.