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Acronyms A-Z
ASNW: Ancient-Semi Natural Woodland
BAG: Nottinghamshire Biodiversity Action Group
BAP: Biodiversity Action Plan
BTCV: British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
BW: British Waterways
CAMS: Catchment Action Management Plans
CLA: Country Land and Business Association
Defra: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Defra (RDS): Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Rural Development Service)
EA: Environment Agency
EBS: England Biodiversity Strategy
EC: European Commission
EFS: England Forestry Strategy
ELS: Entry Level Stewardship
EMBP: East Midlands Biodiversity Partnership
EMDA: East Midlands Development Agency
EMRA: East Midlands Regional Assembly
EMBF: East Midlands Biodiversity Forum
EP: English Partnership
EU: European Union
EWGS: England Woodland Grant Scheme
FC: Forestry Commission
FE: Forest Enterprise
FWAG: Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
GIS: Geographical Information System
GOEM: Government Office for the East Midlands
HAP: Habitat Action Plan
HLS: Higher Level Stewardship
IRS: Integrated Regional Strategy
JNCC: Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The UK Government's wildlife adviser, undertaking national and international conservation work on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies: English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales.
LA: Local Authority
LGA: Local Government Association
LBAP: Local Biodiversity Action Plan
LDF: Local Development Framework Plans
LNR: Local Nature Reserve
LRC: Local Records Centre
LSC: Learning and Skills Council
NBGRC: Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre
NCC: Nottinghamshire County Council
NE: Natural England
NT: National Trust
NFU: National Farmers Union
NGO: Non-governmental Organisation
NNR: National Nature Reserve
NWT: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
PSA: Public Service Agreement
RuBOP: Rushcliffe Barn Owl Project
REnS: Regional Environment Strategy
RFF: Regional Forestry Framework
RPG: Regional Planning Guidance
RSPB: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
SAC: Special Area of Conservation
SAP: Species Action Plan
SFT: Sherwood Forest Trust
SFI: Sherwood Forest Initiative
SPA: Special Protection Area
SPG: Supplementary Planning Guidance
SSSI: Site of Special Scientific Interest
STW: Severn Trent Water
SUDS: Sustainable Urban Drainage System
TPO: Tree Preservation Order. An order made by a local planning authority (LPA) in respect of trees or woodlands. The principal effect of a TPO is to prohibit the: cutting down, uprooting, topping, lopping, wilful damage, or wilful destruction of trees without the LPA’s consent. The cutting of roots, although not expressly covered above, is potentially damaging, and so, in the Secretary of State’s view, requires the LPA’s consent. The law on TPOs is in Part VIII of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999, which came into force on 2 August 1999.
TRT: Trent Rivers Trust
UDF: Urban Design Framework
UKBAP: United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan
VCO: Voluntary Conservation Organisations
WFD: Water Framework Directive
WLMP: Water Level Management Plans
WT: Wildlife Trust
WoT: Woodland Trust
Glossary of terms
Agri-environment schemes: government programmes that help farmers to use methods that benefit the environment. The main scheme operated by DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs is the new Environmental Stewardship Scheme which comprises of three strands, the Entry Level Scheme (ELS), the Organic Entry Level Scheme (OELS) and the Higher Level Scheme (HLS).
Biodiversity: short for biological diversity, biodiversity is a term used to define the great diversity of life on earth.
Coleoptera: beetles.
Coppice: traditional form of woodland management in which trees are cut near to ground level, stimulating vigorous re-growth. Coppiced woodlands are typically cut in blocks on rotation. Coppicing allows sunlight to reach the woodland floor, promoting the growth of woodland flora. Rotational coppicing results in blocks of woodland at different stages of re-growth, thus increasing the diversity of the woodland.
Echo-location: detection of objects by means of reflected sound. Used for orientation and detecting and locating prey by bats, cetacea (whales and dolphins) and other animals.
Epiphytic: term applied to a plant that grows on another (such as on a tree) and obtains nutrients from decaying leaves and other debris and moisture from the air. These plants do not obtain nutrients directly from the host plant as do parasites and saprophytes.
Eutrophication: nutrient enrichment (typically by nitrates and phosphates) of aquatic ecosystems. Increased photosynthetic activity (the metabolic process characteristic of green plants in which carbon dioxide is broken down, using energy from sunlight absorbed by the green pigment chlorophyll) typically occurs as a result, followed by reduced levels of oxygen as plants die off and are decomposed by aerobic organisms. The reduced levels of oxygen then has negative impacts on the fauna found on the ecosystem.
Genotype: the genetic constitution of an organism.
Herpetofauna: collective term for reptiles and amphibians
Parr: juvenile freshwater stage of salmon life-cycle. Parr typically remain in rivers for up to 2 years before becoming smolt and migrating to the sea.
Saproxylic: associated with dead wood habitats.
Smolt: sub-adult stage in life-cycle of salmon-like fish, in which the individuals become silvery in colour and migrate downstream to the sea, where they spend their adult life.
Succession: progressive sequence of changes in vegetation types and animal life within a community that, if allowed to continue, result in the formation of a ‘climax community’ (the last stage in a succession in which the vegetation reaches equilibrium with the environment).