AIDGAP series AIDGAP is an acronym for Aid to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants. The AIDGAP series is a set of books published by the Field Studies Council . They are intended to enable students and interested non-specialists to identify groups of taxa in Britain which are not covered by standard field guides . In general, they are less demanding in level than the Synopses of the British Fauna . All AIDGAP guides are initially produced as test versions, which are circulated widely to students, teaching staff and environmental professionals, with the feedback incorporated into the final published versions. In many cases the AIDGAP volume is the only non-technical work covering the group of taxa in question.History of the series The Field Studies Council recognised the widespread need for identification guides soon after its inception, and has since established a long tradition of publishing such material. Many of these were written by teaching staff writing their own keys to fill obvious gaps in the available literature. However, it became increasingly apparent that a change in approach was needed. Too few guides were available which were usable by those with little previous experience. Many groups of plants and animals appeared to be neglected. The FSC initiated the AIDGAP project in 1976, with input from an advisory panel which included a range of organisations such as the Linnean Society , teachers in secondary education and professional illustrators. The two main objectives adopted by the panel were first to identify those groups of organisms regarded as 'difficult' due to a lack of a suitable key, and second to investigate ways of alleviating the difficulties of identification for each group. The panel also decided to incorporate a 'testing' stage during which the identification guides could be revised and improved. In practice today, AIDGAP guides are produced as 'test versions', which are then circulated to at least 100 volunteer 'testers', drawn from a wide range of backgrounds. Test versions are available for . Feedback from the testers is passed anonymously to the author, then used to inform the production of the finished AIDGAP guide.Titles in the AIDGAP series A large number of guides have been published in the last thirty years. A list of the works in the series is as follows :AIDGAP guides (books) Price & Bersweden Winter Trees: a photographic guide to common trees and shrubs Hubble Seed beetles Sherlock Earthworms Redfern & Shirley British plant galls Macadam & Bennett A pictorial guide to British Ephemeroptera Barber Key to the identification of British centipedes Barnard & Ross Guide to the adult caddisflies or sedge flies Cameron & Riley Land Snails in the British Isles Pryce, Macadam & Brooks Guide to the British Stonefly families: adults and larvae Merryweather & Hill The fern guide Hopkin A key to the Springtails of Britain and Ireland Wallace Simple key to caddis larvae Hayward A new key to wild flowers Killeen, Aldridge & Oliver Freshwater Bivalves of Britain and Ireland Redfern, Shirley & Bloxham British Plant Galls: identification of galls on plants and fungi Unwin A key to families of British bugs Kelly Identification of common benthic diatoms in rivers May & Panter A guide to the identification of deciduous broad-leaved trees and shrubs in winter Plant A key to the adults of British lacewings and their allies Wheeler A field key to the freshwater fishes and lampreys of the British Isles Crothers A key to the major groups of British marine invertebrates Wheeler Field Key to the Shore Fishes of the British Isles Hopkin A key to the woodlice of Britain and Ireland Vas A field guide to the Sharks of British Coastal Waters Skidmore Insects of the British cow-dung community Wright British Sawflies : a key to adults of the genera occurring in Britain Savage A key to the adults of British Lesser Water Boatmen Keys to families of British spiders Trudgil Soil types: a field identification guide Friday A key to the adults of British Water Beetles Haslam et al . British water plants Tilling A key to the major groups of terrestrial invertebrates Hiscock A field guide to the British Red Seaweeds King Sea Spiders. A revised key to the adults of littoral Pycnogonida in the British Isles Croft A key to the major groups of British freshwater invertebrates Willmer Bees, Ants and Wasps - the British Aculeates Unwin A key to the families of British Coleoptera and Strepsiptera Crothers & Crothers A key to the crabs and crab-like animals of British inshore waters Unwin Key to the families of British Diptera Sykes An illustrated guide to the diatoms of British coastal plankton Hiscock A field key to the British Brown Seaweeds Identification guides (fold-out laminated charts) Shaw & Dallimore Springtails families
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