Review
"Compiling the atlas has been a massive exercise ... [it] gives the first complete picture of flowering plants in Wales."--News Wales
"[P]lots the location of every flowering plant and fern across Britain and Ireland."--Northern Echo
"The New Atlas will be a great asset to anyone involved in framing national, regional and local policies affecting wildlife and the countryside, as well as to botanists, conservation agencies, academics and amateur naturalists."--M2 Communications
"This atlas is a shining example of the best practice in partnerships between funders, researchers, specialists and enthusiasts."--John Lawton, Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council
"[A] monumental effort that not only showed the number of new flora in Britain -- some 750 -- but also the perilous state of many traditional species."--The London Times0
"The atlas represented a wake-up call for policymakers who had to confront the threats of changing agricultural practices, overgrazing, the switch from cattle to arable, the draining of marshes, the creation of new roads and housing settlements, and the march of the polluters."--The Guardian
"[R]eveals the subtle and dramatic changes to flora over the last four decades."--Daily Echo
"A new atlas of the British Flora has shown the dramatic effect that modern agriculture is having on our wildflowers."--Garden
"[A] monumental tome"--Dorset Echo
Product Description
This provides a distribution map and accompanying text for 2412 flowering plants and ferns in Great Britain and Ireland. It presents and up-to-date summary of the range of British and Irish plant species, replacing the Atlas of British Flora (1962) and demonstrating the large changes which have taken place in the range and frequency of many species since it was published. All native species and all the commoner hybrids and introduced species are covered, together with some subspecies. The distribution maps are based on a database of over 9 million records, including nearly 5 million records have been collected since 1987 by over 1600 volunteers; pre-1987 records are shown on the maps as separate symbols. The accompanying text describes the habitat of the plant, summarises changes in its distribution, including the dates of introduction of alien species, briefly outlines its European and wider distribution and provides key references for further reading. Introductory chapters deal with the history and organisation of recording project and summarise some of the major changes which have taken place since the 1962 Atlas. The records and text for the mapped species, and over 900 additional rare aliens, are summarised on an accompanying CD-ROM. Users of the CD-ROM will be able to view and print distribution maps, captions and associated data tables, as well as manipulate the data to produce additional maps such as co-incidence maps and add overlays containing environmental information.
