Glasgow Natural History Society

BLB Projects

Some of the projects funded or part-funded by grants from the Blodwen Lloyd Binns Bequest are listed below.

See also The Blodwen Lloyd Binns Bequest: its contribution to the development
of Glasgow Natural History Society Roger Downie

• Many overseas visits by Glasgow University Exploration Society are part-funded by BLB grants;
  some of the reports can be seen here; some also appear below in shportened form.
• John Scouler, Scottish Naturalist: a life in two voyages by Charles Nelson is available in soft-back at £11.50 plus P&P; contact GNHS
• The various conferences held since 2000 were all part-funded by the BLB bequest.
  See the Glasgow Naturalist pages for proceedings.

The following documents are in PDF format and open in a new window:

• Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population
  Darryl McLennan, Hans Recknagel, Kathryn R. Elmer, Pat Monaghan
• Glasgow University Guyana Expedition 2017 Crinan Jarrett, Amber Mathie and Leo Jhaveri
• Glasgow University Rift Valley Expedition (GURVE) 2016 Neil Burnside
• The Ecology of Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius) in Grassland Habitats in the City of Glasgow
  Robyn Stewart
• Passive acoustic monitoring of wetland birds Anna McGregor & Natalie Sinclair
• A study of nesting Common Scoter Melanitta nigra in the Flow Country, Scotland
  – sabbatical project, 2015 Elisabeth & Tom Charman
  
• Evaluation of eDNA as a rapid biodiversity monitoring tool for great crested newt (Triturus cristatus):
  a Scottish case study Lynsey Harper
• Limpopo Leopard Conservation Morgan Welsh
• The effect of water depth on growth and development in lunged and lungless larval anurans
  (frogs and toads) Patrick Walsh
• Amphibian research in Trinidad and Tobago Roger Downie
• Hoverfly records from Coll and Tiree (Diptera, Syrphidae)
  E. Geoffrey Hancock, Jeanne Robinson & Mary Sumner
• Gartcosh great crested newts: the story so far McNeill, D.C., Downie, J.R. & Ross, B
• Otter (Lutra lutra) mortality and road bridge design in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park James D. Hutchison & Dominic J. McCafferty
• Ecology and Conservation of Otters (Lutra lutra) in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Dominic J. McCafferty
• Morris Young’s “Flora of Renfrewshire” (VC76) Richard Weddle
• Collecting wild flower seeds on the Uists for propagation
  Richard Weddle, Edna Stewart & Morag Mackinnon
• Foraging preferences of the great yellow bumblebee Bombus distinguendus on Orkney
  Lorna Wilkie

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