The Ecology and Conservation Studies Society Field Meeting - Dungeness, Kent
When:
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Venue:
External
No booking required
Organiser: Brian Ferry
Meet at the café car park by the old lighthouse at 11.00 a.m. (GR 090169). Otherwise, be picked up at Ashford (Kent) Station at 10.30 am.
The Dungeness shingle is renowned for its unique range of vegetation types as well as for its birds and insects. The Kerton Road area near to the east coast is an excellent place to study the primary vegetation succession across a series of shingle ridges of increasing age as one moves inland from the coast. Further inland towards the lighthouses, in an area known as the Long Pits, the shingle surface is lowered, as a result of excavations at the beginning of the 1900s. Here, secondary recolonisation has produced a very species-rich area of vegetation. Further inland still is the RSPB reserve comprising a series of wetland and open water sites as well as areas of scrub on shingle. On our visit, we can study the first two of these areas in moderate detail and, if time permits, visit the RSPB reserve in the afternoon.
Contact:07947064753 or B.Ferry@rhul.ac.uk
Contact name:
Brian Ferry