Ecology The vital role arborists could play in preserving UK's butterfly population
A number of recent studies have offered an interesting glimpse into how warming temperatures are affecting the UK’s butterfly population.
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Wanted to become a forester but ended up as a pest, disease and weed control specialist. Now applying knowledge and experience gained to the field of forestry. BSc (Hons) Agricultural Botany and Dip Ed University of Wales; MSc Technology of Crop Protection University of Reading; PhD Tropical Plant Pathology University of the West Indies. Extensive periods working in The West Indies, West Africa, South and South East Asia and with most tropical tree crops including: rubber, coffee, cocoa, tea, oil palm, coconut, banana, citrus, mango and avocado. Wide ranging interests within both forestry and arb. Has a mission to improve knowledge and understanding for men and women on the forest floor about insect pests and diseases, and clearly the main immediate threat to UK forestry and arb. Continues to maintain a healthy scepticism of what the establishment has to say on this subject. Rebel with a cause.
Wanted to become a forester but ended up as a pest, disease and weed control specialist. Now applying knowledge and experience gained to the field of forestry. BSc (Hons) Agricultural Botany and Dip Ed University of Wales; MSc Technology of Crop Protection University of Reading; PhD Tropical Plant Pathology University of the West Indies. Extensive periods working in The West Indies, West Africa, South and South East Asia and with most tropical tree crops including: rubber, coffee, cocoa, tea, oil palm, coconut, banana, citrus, mango and avocado. Wide ranging interests within both forestry and arb. Has a mission to improve knowledge and understanding for men and women on the forest floor about insect pests and diseases, and clearly the main immediate threat to UK forestry and arb. Continues to maintain a healthy scepticism of what the establishment has to say on this subject. Rebel with a cause.
A number of recent studies have offered an interesting glimpse into how warming temperatures are affecting the UK’s butterfly population.
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