Course content

    1. How trees grow

    2. Overcoming damage

    3. Adaptive growth

    4. Damage and woundwood

    5. Woundwood logs

    6. Reading tree body language

    7. Replace not repair

    8. Where do bats live?

    9. Basic tree biology re-cap quiz

    1. A bat's annual cycle

    2. Types of bat roost

    3. Roosting ecology

    4. Fat and hibernation

    5. Competition for roost sites

    6. Bat ecology re-cap quiz

    1. Legislation summary

    2. Legislation - examples

    3. Survey guidance

    4. Ground-Level Tree Assessment (GLTA)

    5. Potential Roost Feature inspection

    6. Presence/absence surveys

    7. Emergence surveys

    8. Close inspections

    9. Long-term deployment of cameras

    10. DNA swabbing

    11. Survey tools

    12. Evidence of bats

    13. Assessing trees re-cap quiz

    1. Arboricultural Association - Guidance note 1

    2. Bat Conservation Trust - Good Practice Guidelines

    3. British Standard 8596:2015

    4. Bat Tree Habitat Key - Bat Roosts in Trees

    5. Industry guidance re-cap quiz

    1. Introduction

    2. The Bat Tree Habitat Key recording form

    3. Ground level recording

    4. Recording undertaken by the climber

    5. Measurements

    6. Evidence of bats

    7. Using an endoscope

    8. Torch and mirror

    9. Internal conditions of Potential Roost Features

    10. Internal conditions - slides

    11. Completing the BTHK form re-cap

    1. Interrogating the Bat Tree Habitat Key database

    2. Record keeping and decision making

    3. An introduction to licences

    4. Emergencies

    5. Mitigation

    6. Record keeping and decision making re-cap quiz

About this course

  • £200.00
  • 93 lessons
  • 8.5 hours of video content

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