The last 12 months has seen the completion of the descriptions of all but 5 of the 1844 plants on the database. These last five are being sought from original sources. Do report any errors or discrepancies to Henry Ford from the contacts.
The next 12 months should see the continuation of updates, the addition of photographs, the addition of seed germination data, and the completion of the fungal and insect names check, and linking to the NBN gateway. We will also be updating the NVC habitat codes for all the plants.
Funding : The British Ecological Society have generously funded the Ecological Flora again for the coming year enabling us to undertake the major revisions that have been made. Further funding always needs to be sourced. Contact Prof Alastair Fitter, or Henry Ford from the contacts page.
Associated Fungi, and Phytophagous Insects: Authorities have been added, together with synonymy and name status, from data generously supplied by the Natural History Museum. Errors remain ours however and some typographic errors remain and it is hoped that these will be cleared up in the coming months.
Updates of Ecological characteristics : 3 plants have had their ecological characteristics updated. Now that work on the plant descriptions has been competed this work will continue.
New Search Facilities : In response to requests from users a new search facility has been provided which allows the user to retrieve ecological characteristic data data chosen from a multiplie choice list from a number of species (similarly chosen but restricted to 20 species). This should enable users to retrieve data from taxononically or ecologically related groups of species with greater ease than in the past.
Links: Several new links have ben added to our list or sites relevant to the UK flora .
Requests : We are always looking for more data. If you have any, we would be very grateful if you could contribute. Useful photographs and drawings will be much appreciated.