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Whild Associates is an ecological consultancy specialising in botany and data management. The partners are Alex Lockton, who is also Coordinator of the Botanical Society of the British isles, and Dr Sarah Whild, who is a Lecturer in Ecology at the University of Birmingham and BSBI Recorder for Shropshire. Our main area of interest is the Meres & Mosses of the Shropshire-Cheshire plain, and we have undertaken many studies of the plants and vegetation of this interesting part of the country. Web Sites and Databases Our web databases are designed by Alan Hale; the web sites are managed by Alex Lockton: Botanical Society of the British Isles Shropshire Flora (passworded) Selected Reports Grasswrack Pondweed in 2008: report to the UK BAP group. Whild Associates, Shrewsbury (pdf 246kb). Condition Assessments of Oakhanger Moss and Abbot’s Moss. 2007. Natural England. Botanical Surveys of the Meres & Mosses, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2005 (c.30 site reports). English Nature, Shrewsbury. Fumaria purpurea in the British Isles. 2003. English Nature, Peterborough. The status of Grasswrack Pondweed, Potamogeton compressus, in Britain in 2002. English Nature, Shrewsbury. A review of River Corridor Survey procedures. 1999. Environment Agency, Bristol. Botanical review of Shropshire Wildlife Trust reserves. (numerous volumes) 1998-2001. Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Shrewsbury. Brown Moss Rehabilitation Plan. 1996. Shropshire County Council, Shrewsbury. A Strategic River Corridor Survey of the River Windrush. 1996. The Environment Agency, Thames Region. A Survey of the Rivers Vyrnwy and Tanat. 1994. National Rivers Authority, Severn-Trent Region. |
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Whild Associates Ecological Consultants 66 North Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2JL, UK |
Training
Our training courses are mostly delivered through the University of Birmingham and the Field Studies Council.
Sarah is Chair of the BSBI’s Training & Education Committee, which promotes training courses and awards grants to students.
Contact Sarah for details of these or to discuss your training requirements.
Selected publications
Whild, S.J., Lockton, A.J. & Godfrey, M. 2006. The Flora of Haughmond Hill. Shropshire Botanical Society & the University of Birmingham, Shrewsbury.
Rich, T.C.G., Lockton, A.J. & Parnell, J. 2005. Distribution of the Irish Whitebeam, Sorbus hibernica E.F. Warb. (Rosaceae). Watsonia 25, 369-380.
Whild, S.J. & Lockton, A.J. (eds). 2005. New Flora of Attingham Park. Shropshire Botanical Society & University of Birmingham, Shrewsbury.
Lockton, A.J. & Whild, S.J. 2005. Rare Plants of Shropshire, 3rd edition. Shropshire Botanical Society, Shrewsbury.
Whild, S.J. & Lockton, A.J. 2003. Carex muricata subsp. muricata (Cyperaceae) in Shropshire. Watsonia 24, 528-531.
Rich, T.C.G. & Lockton, A.J. 2002. Bromus interruptus (Hack.) Druce (Poaceae) – an extinct English endemic. Watsonia 24:69-80.
Whild, S.J., Meade, R. & Daniels, J. (eds.) 2001. Management of water and trees on raised bogs. Papers and transcripts from a conference held at Hanmer, 10-12th June 1997. English Nature Research Reports No. 407, English Nature, Peterborough.
English Nature. 1998. A strategy for the conservation of the Meres & Mosses of Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. English Nature, Shrewsbury.
Whild Associates, 2010
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Shropshire Ecological Data Network Our innovative approach to record centre management that involves automating many of the laborious jobs traditionally associated with LRCs, thus freeing up resources to do more real work. In Shropshire, this has resulted in a database of 400,000 records in just 3 years and at a cost of just £30,000. Contact us We are happy to take on work that involves British botany, especially in Shropshire or the Meres & Mosses area. We do not undertake protected species work or environmental impact assessment. Please contact us if you might be interested in our services, for an informal estimate if preferred. If we cannot do the work, we shall try to recommend someone who can. Recorder Support We used to provide support for Recorder 3 on behalf of the JNCC, and we still get enquiries. Old Recorder does not work on Windows Vista computers and, although it works very well on Windows 7, it is a struggle to get Plot 5 to produce maps. To run it on Win7, simply copy your entire Recorder folder and all its subfolders onto the c drive of your new computer (NB, it must be c:\recorder). Then, from the desktop, create a new shortcut to run the program c:\recorder\arev\arev.exe. You have to add a space and comma after the ‘exe’ to get it to launch Recorder rather than arev. Before attempting to run it you must set it to compatibility with Windows XP (or Win98) mode and enable it to use EMS and XMS (right-click on the shortcut icon). This should run Recorder fine, but it will open in a funny window and Plot 5 won’t run. To get Recorder to run exactly as it did under previous systems, you have to download a program called Dosbox (Google it and follow the instructions).
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