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Habitat
Comments:
Figure 4. RA46 recording card, March 1981
Re c order
dealing with all the records, while Chelmick
continued to handle general enquiries and
organisation. In October 1981, David Chelmick
stood down as scheme organiser, and Bob Merritt
was thereafter responsible for all aspects of the
Scheme. A new recording card, the RA46, was
produced by BRC in March 1981 (Figure 4), with
additional spaces for habitat descriptions and other
No.
Card Compiler
No.
DOPLATA 6411
11
Vice -county name
Date
Altitude
Source
Field Mus.
metres
feet
Biological Records Centre June 1984 RA 46
notes, reflecting the development of the Scheme
beyond simple distribution mapping.
The 1980s saw the pace of recording accelerate
considerably. Figure 5 shows the coverage at the
end of 1982, and Figure 6 the number of records of
one of the commonest species, Ischnura elegans,
each year, a good measure of recorder activity
Lit.