Recording downloads

The BLS Spreadsheet (v6 2019) can be used for all habitats, including churchyards. This spreadsheet is designed to be used in Excel and it is available in two formats, you are advised to use the .xlsx format unless your version of Excel is too old to handle it. There may be problems using it OpenOffice or other emulators but we have done our best to avoid these.

The Guidelines document includes help on using the spreadsheet and our substrate and scale habitat codes, and the handout from the training session run at Cober Hill in March 2019 may also be useful.

Old cards and spreadsheets - these are here in case they are needed, but they are rarely used now and the species names are quite out of date. They include a General Recording Card, a Lobarion Project Recording Card, and for detailed churchyard recording there is a Churchyard Card and Spreadsheet. Churchyard and woodland recorders are encouraged to use the General spreadsheet instead, and to fill in the substrate and scale habitat codes as necessary.

All sorts of useful things, including the Identification Difficulties spreadsheet, and summaries of the information held in the BLS database. These summaries are now out of date but they will be updated soon.

Sections of the third edition of the Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (LGBI3) are being made available as they are published as PDFs on our website.

Useful information to assist with lichen identification and recording, including the Cladonia Key, a Skills List that may be useful to trainers, the Guide to Lichen Surveying and Report Writing (Hill, 2006) and Corrections to the 2nd edition of Lichens of Great Britain & Ireland (LGBI2).

'Corrections' lists simple errors in the 2nd edition of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (LGBI2), Smith et al. (2009). The complete table for the Verrucaria table is also available here. The 'Corrections, notes and observations' is a longer document, compiled by Mark Powell. All these were last updated in 2017, and any further corrections or additions should now be sent to Paul Cannon to be taken into account in the development of the 3rd Edition.