General
Stroud, D.A., Reed, T.M., Pienkowski, M.W. and Lindsay, R.A.
Birds, bogs and forestry presented the initial results of surveys undertaken by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland.
Coastal & Estuarine
Jones, P.D. & Chambers, R.D.
16 papers derived from a meeting of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association in Penrith in April 1993, covering the geography of the Solway and Cumbrian coasts, water quality and monitoring, radioactive and heavy metal contamination, biological studies, conservation and management, and studies of the benthic marine wildlife.
Marine
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
The purpose of the Irish Sea Pilot was to help develop a strategy for marine nature conservation that could be applied to all UK waters and, with international collaboration, the adjacent waters of the north-east Atlantic
Freshwater
Duigan CA, Kovach WL, Palmer M.
This report presents the results of the statistical analysis of the enlarged dataset following the first comprehensive classification scheme for standing waters in Britain
Grassland
Rodwell, J.S., Morgan, V., Jefferson, R.G. and Moss, D.
This report assesses the significance of British Lowland Grasslands, occurring below the line of enclosure or moorland wall, with a wider European frame.
Heathland
MacDonald, A.,
Describes the main types of biological and climatic damage to heather, including the influence of management practices, and their identification, prevention or reversal.
Lowland Wetland
Uplands
Stroud, D.A., Reed, T.M., Pienkowski, M.W. and Lindsay, R.A.
Birds, bogs and forestry presented the initial results of surveys undertaken by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland.
Woodland
Hall, J
The woodland section of the National Vegetation Classification (NVC) has been widely used by many people and organisations in Great Britain (and, to a limited extent, in Northern Ireland) since it became available in 1986. As a result, there is a great deal of information concerning the occurrence of woodland types in this country. However, the data is distributed between many organisations and private individuals and, until a database was set up to collate it, was largely unavailable to inquirers. The first report on the database (Hall 1996) described the collection of records and the setting up of the spreadsheet. It also discussed the differences in the methodologies of surveys used to build the database, and when to use quadrats. Since this report was published much new information has been gathered, and preliminary maps of NVC communities and sub-communities produced. These are to be published by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as The woodland NVC atlas for Great Britain in 1998. This interim report outlines some of the patterns that are emerging, and some of the limitations of our survey data.