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Background information on club-mosses (Lycopodiaceae) Ireland is home to four species of clubmoss (Lycopodiaceae): Diphasistrum alpinum, Huperzia selago, Lycopodiella inundata and Lycopodium clavatum, all of which generally occur in lake-margins, wet lowland...
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Project Background The Irish arctic-alpine flora consists of a rare and fragmented group of plants, some of which have disjunct populations distributed around Europe. According to conventional theory of plant immigration to Ireland, species colonized the island...
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Project Background The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland is collaborating with the Phenology Research Group, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden on a phenology...
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Darach Lupton and his colleague Mr David Nkwanga of Nature Palace Botanic Gardens, Uganda are embarking a research project to assess the population genetics and the conservation requirements of Encephalartos equatorialis. The main research will run from 2010 to...
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Project Background A methodology has been developed to identify areas of high plant diversity in Ireland. Being able to classify farmland as being of High Nature Value, in an objective manner, will allow the distribution of subsidies aimed at environmental protection...
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Project Background The Kerry Lily, Simethis planifolia is a beautiful, diminutive white flowered member of the lily family (Asphodelaceae), and is listed under the Flora Protection Order, 1999. In Ireland, it is only known from three locations, occurring in the...
