Preliminary Results of the Trinity BioBlitz

September 2013

The first ever Trinity campus BioBlitz, organised by the MSc. Biodiversity and Conservation class took place on the 22nd of May. During just four hours of recording, we found 126 species on Trinity Campus: 94 species of plant, 19 bird species, 7 insects, 3 non-insect invertebrates, and 1 species each of lichens, fungi and mammals. The latter was the fox, Vulpes vulpes, which live on campus. The weather was pretty dismal which probably accounts for the low number of insect species observed on the day. Well done to all the recorders, identifiers, data enterers, and particularly to the MSc class, led by Karen Shevlin and Sheila Murphy who organised the event. The data will be sent to the National Biodiversity Data Centre (http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/).