The status of spider recording in Watsonian Northumberland

摘要

In the latter part of 2014, I took on the role of Area Organiser (AO) (recorder) for the two Watsonian vice-counties (VC) covering the administrative county of Northumberland; VC 67 (South Northumberland) and VC 68 (North Northumberland). This therefore provided the opportunity to review the status of spider recording, based on the national spider recording scheme (SRS) dataset that I hold and a desk-based study of relevant literature.