The partnership produces a newsletter twice a year. If you would like to include an article in the next newsletter, please get in touch, we would love to write about your projects. If you want to be added to our newsletter list please email Floodplain-Meadows-Project@open.ac.uk
Archived Newsletters
- Ecover Meadows for the Climate project
- Launch of our Arts and Crafts competition 2021
- Community Arts project in Worcestershire
- Updates on FMP Ambassadors
- Glorious Cotswolds Grasslands
- Towards Net Zero Using Nature Based Solutions in Floodplains - A Policy Workshop
- Oceanic Wet Grasslands in Scotland - update
- Ecover Meadows for the Climate project
- Launch of our Arts and Crafts competition 2021
- Community Arts project in Worcestershire
- Updates on FMP Ambassadors
- Glorious Cotswolds Grasslands
- Towards Net Zero Using Nature Based Solutions in Floodplains - A Policy Workshop
- Oceanic Wet Grasslands in Scotland - update
- Priority Habitat Inventory and floodplain meadows
- Floodplain meadows as NFM measures
- History of floodplain landuse
- Policy update
- Pilobolus crystallinus
- Latest research - Oxley Mead
- Soil carbon -where do floodplain meadows sit in the debate
- Having a break: dormancy in snake's-head fritillary
- Calthion in Scotland - what did we find?
- Policy update
- Updates on Ambassadors, PhD students and FMP questionnaire
- Introducing our new Advocacy Officer
- Snake's-head fritillary - what benefit being native?
- Ambassadors updates including two case studies (controlling Phalaris and Phragmites at Winnall Moors, Hampshire, and reducing Phosphorus levels at Avon Meadows, Worcestershire).
- Meat - a balanced diet.
- Still undiscovered resources on our doorsteps.
- Esmeé Fairburn breaking news
- The state of floodplain meadow restoration in England and Wales
- Two new PhD opportunities available
- Species rich wet grasslands in Scotland
- Natural capital of floodplains
- What's next for floodplains? Brexit, a new agri-environment scheme, the 25 year plan and floodplain meadows
- The rise of wildflower hour
- Ambassador updates
- Floodplain meadow restoration
- International research
- PhD studies
- Natural flood management and the importance of soils in floodplain meadows
- Brexit- where next?
- Four Seasons of Flood- is the time of year important for impact on floodplain meadows?
- Floodplain Meadows Partnership Ambassador- Sam Thomas (Kent Wildlife Trust)
- Know your bents!
- 2015 survey season summary
- Technical handbook launch coming soon
- Calthion workshop review
- Russian update
- Floodplain Meadows Ambassadors; funding secured for 24 floodplain meadow ambassadors
- Research on the Somerset Levels and Northern France
- Flight of the Fritillary news
- Floodplain Meadows and pollinating insects
- Russian Floodplain Meadows; Kaluga Region
- An Atlas of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland
- Coronation Meadows: Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Rutland
- Summary of survey season 2013, after wet a 2012!
- Jim McGinley: Policy and Practise in the Assessment and Management of Floodplain Meadows in England
- Sonia Newman: Control of invasive sedges in floodplain meadows; some answers?
- Calthion in the UK
- Fritillary decline
- The Ecosystem Services of species rich floodplain meadows: what are they and can we quantify them?
- Preserving historic water meadows
- Summer floods of 2012, and the wet weather: management data from North Meadow, Cricklade. Big Sedges, What should we do?
- Flight of the Fritillary- increasing the number of survey sites
- The tale of the flower meadow in a box and the wooden bumblebees
- The Flight of the Fritillary- expansion of seedlings following a summer flood
- ‘The Splodge Plots’: what are they, how they derived and what relevance are they to me?
- Chimney Meadows- The Importance of Making Hay While the Sun Shines!
- The hay cycle
- Summary of 2011 survey season and events
- Non-chemical control of Marsh Ragwort revisited
- Urban Meadows: a management challenge- dogs, motorbikes, litter, bonfires, compaction, fence damage
- Summary of 2010 survey season
- Conference and events summary 2010 (workshop, fritillary counting, North meadow and Oxford University Farms Open Day)
- Mottey Meadows hay making festival
- Article on identifying pond sedges- Carex acutiformis, acuta and riparia
- Soil compaction- using a low ground pressure tractor
- Vale Landscape Heritage Trust- a local project with a specific aim to preserve key floodplain meadows in the Vale of Evesham
- Earthworm study in the Severn Vale
- Plant grid and meadows map launch!
- Summary of 2009 survey season
- Restoration projects from around the country-
- A restoration project on former arable land using seed from Emorsgate
- A restoration project from arable using green hay from an adjacent NNR (Chimney meadows)
- A restoration project on a low diversity existing sward using a brush harvester to spread seed from nearby meadows (Orton, Cumbria)
- Restoration of species-rich floodplain meadows from semi-improved grassland Upper Ray Meadows (Buckinghamshire)
- Modelling the soil-water regime for restoration (Aggregates Levy Sustainability fund)
- Impact of July 2007 flood at Cricklade
- Monitoring fritillaries on Cricklade
- The non-chemical control of Marsh Ragwort
