Meetings

Katy Roucoux and Ian Lawson led a one-day meeting which involved presentations of new projects and data, and discussions of some common methodological problems faced by tropical peatland researchers.

Katy Roucoux and Ian Lawson visited the pollen labs at Kew and Edinburgh in a quest for reference material to help pin down some of the pollen identifications from core QT-2010-1. The team has already compiled a substantial electronic database of pollen morphotypes and the LTFD reference collection is growing. Katy and Ian also discussed … Read more

Katy, Ian, Tom, Freddie and other colleagues at Leeds attended a one-day meeting organised by Sofie Sjorgersten and gave presentations of their work.

Katy Roucoux, Tim Jones and Ian Lawson visited our project partner Dr Will Gosling at the Open University to discuss the interpretation of our initial pollen data from Quistococha, and to discuss approaches to tropical pollen taxonomy.

Tom was kindly hosted by our friends at the University of Turku, Finland, where he spent time sampling their herbarium collections of ferns. He also gave a presentation about the project to the Amazon Research Team. Tom is making a special study of fern spore taxonomy as part of his PhD research.

Tim Jones presented a poster about our NERC project, while Tim Baker, Katy Roucoux and Geertje van der Heijden convened a session on “Understanding the impact of disturbance on plant communities” with invited guest speakers including Prof Hermann Behling (Göttingen) and Prof Frans Bongers (Wageningen).