Glasgow Natural History Society

The Glasgow Naturalist 25 part 4

Urban Biodiversity Conference: Proceedings

Full Papers

• From whaling to whale watching: a history of cetaceans in Scotland ECM Parsons
• The moth assemblages of Flanders Moss, Stirlingshire JT Knowler
• Diversity of wild plants in a low−maintenance Scottish suburban garden. Then and now − 1986 and 2011 M O’Reilly
• The Professor Blodwen Lloyd Binns Bequest: its contribution to the development of Glasgow’s Natural History Society JR Downie, M Mackinnon, P Macpherson, D McCafferty & RB Weddle
• Adventures with Amphibians JR Downie
• Gartcosh great crested newts: the story so far DC McNeill, JR Downie & B Ross
• A review of the incidence of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in surface waters in Scotland including potential effects of climate change, with a list of the common species and new records from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency JT Krokowski, P Lang, A Bell, N Broad, J Clayton, I Milne, M Nicolson, A Ross & N. Ross
• Vegetation and ‘site florulas’ of islands in West Loch Roag, Outer Hebrides Paul A. Smith & Jim McIntosh
• A record of the aurochs, Bos primigenius, from Morayshire Andrew C. Kitchener & John Doune
• First records of the pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps, in Scotland Andrew C. Kitchener, Jerry S. Herman1, Robert J. Reid and Neil Anderson
• Effects of fertilisers on vegetation of ultrabasic terraces (1965−2010): Isle of Rum, Scotland Jackie Anne Gilbert and Kevin Richard Butt
• Long-term dynamics in Scottish saltmarsh plant communities Rebecca B. Taubert and Kevin J. Murphy

Short notes

• Interesting Aculeate records from Glasgow, including eight new species records from Lanarkshire, with reflections on their wider distribution in Southern Scotland J Robinson & C Fiedler
• The migrant moth, small marbled Eublemma parva, in central Scotland 2011
  C. Convery, D. Collis & G. Collis
• The Australian landhopper, Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt, 1925), Crustacea, Amphipoda, in Glasgow
  EG Hancock
• The entomology collection of Dr Clifford Edwards (1913-2009) in Glasgow museums Jeanne Robinson
• Miscellaneous invertebrates recorded from the Outer Hebrides, 2010 John H Bratton
• A photograph of a teacher-training course in marine zoology at Millport (1914) PG Moore
• First record of larval sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus L. in the Endrick Water, Loch Lomond
  JB Hume & CE Adams
• Hoverfly species (Diptera, Syrphidae) collected near Rowardennan, Loch Lomondside, August, 2011
  EG Hancock
• The most northerly documented record of the green alga Hydrodictyon reticulatum (water-net) in the UK Alison McManus
• Correction to the statistical note in ‘Gulliver, R., 2011. Patterns of flowering on continuously−grazed dune and machair on Colonsay. The Glasgow Naturalist 25 (3) 19−28’ Richard Gulliver
• The rare green alga Pediastrum privum (Chlorophyta, Sphaeropleales) in a Scottish kettle loch: new to British freshwaters Pauline Lang, Jan Krokowski, Nicole Ross & Ross Doughty

Obituaries

• Agnes Walker E Stewart
• Norman Roy Grist D Palmar