Timber Copse and Greatmead Copse are the study site for the project part of my MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity course, working within the Natural History Museum Soil Biodiversity Group and supervised by Dr Paul Eggleton. The Soil Biodiversity Group is interested in patterns of invertebrate diversity in soils across the world and their roles in soil processes. Previous work by the Soil Biodiversity Group in woodlands in the United Kingdom has specifically ignored sources of micro-heterogeneity to produce an average result. My project is surveying Timber Copse and Greatmead Copse in greater depth to see how much additional variation is added by including microhabitats and identify what may be missed in a standard survey.
Google map showing location and type of microhabitats sampled for the project
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