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| Please suggest subjects for consideration by the New Naturalists editorial board. Thanks Alex
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| I know this was discussed a lot on the old forum but to get the list going SOUTH DOWNS - as a northerner I know very little about this area and would love to read more now its become a national park ESTUARIES - or will this overlap with the proposed shallow seas? PEATLANDS & MERES especially concentrating on the great areas remaining in the British Isles & Ireland eg describing our best bogs(Thorne & Hatfield moors) and large areas of peatland such as Caithness and their context within a global set up VIRUSES
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An updated version of the Orchid "bible"
"Wild Orchids of Britain"
The book in all editions is the 1950, with a preface to the second edition, and a preface to the preface for the limpback edition, giving an update on orchid developments. The distribution maps are much better from the second edition.
There have been many developments in the last 59 years, conservation work in the microprop unit at Kew, reclasification using DNA. Orchids grown at Kew returned to Nature Reserves. Mycorhizal fungi used for seeds etc
Martin
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| A few ideas spring to mind, namely:- The Chilterns, British Owls, Shield Bugs and an update of Spiders.
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| What I'd like to see are a few more insect groups covered, if not in their entirety, then by functional group. Hymenoptera (or by gall wasps, digger wasps, solitary bees etc), Diptera (or by hover-flies, crane-flies, mosquitoes & midges, soldier-flies etc) Coleoptera (or by water beetles, ground beetles, dung beetles, burying beetles, rove beetles, scarabs, long-horns etc). I'd also like to see a few more plant groups covered. Orchids have been done, so why not do the labiate, rose & daisy families. Each of these groups have some facinating ecology and biochemistry that the general readers NNs are aimed at wouldn't know about. Finally, I'd like to see an updated version of butterflies. To be honest Ford's version leaves me cold, and so much of the natural history of this group isn't covered in his book. Anything written by the Thomas boys (Chris and Jeremy) would, to my mind, be ideal! Bobby
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Falcon (8/17/2009)
A few ideas spring to mind, namely:- The Chilterns, British Owls, Shield Bugs and an update of Spiders. Owls would be an excellent subject, and a popular one I'd bet. There was a good thread on this question on the old forums. One of my suggestions there was Rats and Mice in Britain, which I'd still love to see. Hell, they could include shrews and voles in it for all I care!
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SimonRead (8/21/2009)
One of my suggestions there was Rats and Mice in Britain, which I'd still love to see. Hell, they could include shrews and voles in it I'd also like to see a title on the smaller mammals, in addiiton to: Whales and Dolphins, Hoverflies, Parasitic Wasps, Beetles Regards, Bill
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| Really do need up to date books on British Birds of Prey and Butterflies. As regards new titles; British Owls, Hoverflies, Diptera, British Crows, Brecon Beacons National Park, Beetles.
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Some further suggestions:
The Nudibranchs (sea slugs), The Continental Shelf (probably overlaps with Shallow Seas), British Natural History Publishing, Microscopic Life, The Hebridean Outliers (Rockall, St Kilda, North Rona, Sulasgeir, Flannan Isles, etc), The Nekton.
I'd better stop now rather than indulge in more flights of fancy!
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| Definately an update on no1 'Butterflies'. I think 65 years is more than long enough to wait for an updated version of this classic book. There are 13,000 odd members of Butterfly Conservation of which a fair proportion would probably purchase a copy as well as most of the N/N enthusiasts and some N/N forum members too? This should be a moneyspinner for Collins due to the big increase in popularity in interest in this group of insects during the last 20 years or so! Besides which, brilliant book that Butterflies is from 1945, quite a bit of it is out of date especially the distribution maps and so much has been learnt in recent decades of the demands and needs of certain fussy species of Britain's Butterflies. We also have 2 new species on the british list since the original volume was published in 1945; Bergers Clouded Yellow (1947) and Real's Wood White (2003)? as well as huge changes in most species' distribution and abundance. What does anyone else think? Collins; what do you think? Lee Slaughter.
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