This Research Strategy has been developed on behalf of the UK Biodiversity Research Advisory Group (UK BRAG) by a specialist subgroup, members of which exchanged ideas by email (the subgroup did not meet due to time constraints). Members of the subgroup were drawn from a variety of organisations, representing policy makers, researchers and practitioners. The subgroup was chaired by Dr Mike Fay of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A full list of the people who participated in the discussion can be found in Appendix 1 at the end of this Strategy.

 

There have been various workshops aimed at bringing together the research and conservation communities and elucidating the remaining research needs. A one-day workshop was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2001 (Fay et al., 2003) to discuss these issues in relation to plants, and a more wide-ranging workshop covering animals and plants was organised UKPopNet in 2005 (Gregory et al., 2006). The conclusions from these meetings formed the basis of the discussions of this subgroup, and the conclusions presented in this report follow on from those formulated at those meetings.