This beginner course is designed to give ecologists the foundational botanical skills that are essential for accurate habitat surveying using UKHab and NVC. You will learn useful techniques to help you identify key indicator species of different habitats, including wildflowers and grasses.
Tutor: Ambroise Baker
Ambroise is a keen field botanist and a plant ecologist by training. His first love was horticultural botany with a passion for succulent plants throughout teenage years. This led him to discover field botany during a stay in South Africa in his early 20s and has never looked back. Since then, he has been developing and applying his plant identification skills during his studies, research, and professional life. He has been lucky to survey grassland, heathland and woodland in various corners of Europe and the UK, as well as extensive field work in freshwaters, mostly ponds and lakes. Ambroise has a particular soft spot for urban floras, open mosaic habitats, and taxonomic groups such as grasses, Brassicaceae, bryophytes, charophytes and aquatic plant. When he can’t indulge in field botany, he enjoys family life, allotmenteering and his job as a university lecturer.
