Course: NVC: Winter Habitat Survey - Understanding and Describing Plant Communities

This intermediate course will provide you with the skills required to confidently use the National Vegetation Classification (NVC) in winter as a framework to approach how plant communities are responding to environmental change.

Understanding the methods used for assessing, classifying and mapping vegetation communities is an essential part of ecological practice. In the UK these are underpinned by the National Vegetation Classification (NVC). These methods can be of immense value in determining the environmental and management factors that have shaped plant communities.

This course includes:

• Introduction to the NVC in the field.
• How this fits with other classification systems (e.g phase 1, UKHab).
• Use of indicator species.
• Useful software for vegetation analysis and identification.
• Touching on plant identification and using keys.

This course is eligible for a student discount. If you are a current student, please use discount code BioStudent20 at checkout for 20% off.