Edge
of a central field, rabbits burrowing into
lynchet
Maintain Maritime Grassland
Communities
1 Habitat Management Option A2 Limited
Intervention
- Natural
processes allowed to develop -modifications by Rabbits
accepted
- Monitor
changes by periodic detailed survey
- Control
invading Bracken
- By the
use of Rabbit exclosures continue to study development of climax
festucetum type vegetation.
- Promote
studies of the relationship between vegetation type and
invertebrates.
2 Study & Research Option C2 -Specialist
Facility
- Promote
studies where research will benefit habitat management.
3
General Access Option E2 -Restricted
- No
public access other than on permissible footpath system.
- Access
allowed to researchers and reserve staff for monitoring purposes
- 1
Habitat management option 3- active management
- Control
bracken encroachment
- Promote
surveys of invertebrates especially with regard to the rare
Sifolinia karavajevi
- Survey
meadow dependant bird species especially Lapwings to modify
management if appropriate and to understand the affects of
management.
- In areas
where dense Bracken is removed, by survey and photograph, monitor
vegetational change.
- Survey
Wood Sage to consider future management and to monitor spread of
the species.
