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3.5.5  Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to the staff of English Nature’s Local Teams
and the Countryside Council for Wales for providing
information on wet grassland sites. 
3.5.6  Further sources of information
A.  References cited
Burgess, N.D., & Hirons, G.J.M.  1990.  Techniques of hydrological
management at coastal lagoons and lowland wet grasslands on RSPB
Reserves. Sandy, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Dargie, T.C.  1993.  The distribution of lowland wet grassland in
England. Peterborough, English Nature.  (English Nature
Research Reports, No. 49.)
Dargie, T., Dargie, M., & Tantram, D.  1994.  Lowland wet grassland in
England - module 2.  Resource distribution & biota reference
inventory. Peterborough, English Nature.  
Drake, C.M.  1986.  A survey of the invertebrates of the Gwent Levels
1985. Peterborough, Nature Conservancy Council.
Drake, C.M., Foster, A.P., & Palmer, M.A.  1984.  A survey of the
invertebrates of the Somerset Levels and Moors.  Peterborough,
Nature Conservancy Council.
Environmental Advisory Unit.  1991.  The ecology of the Gwent and
Avon Levels.  Study report 3: Severn Bridges Bill Environmental
Statement, supporting documents. Cardiff, Cardiff City Council.
Environmental Advisory Unit.  1993.  Lamby Way Landfill, eastern
extension.  Cardiff, Cardiff City Council. 
Glading, P.R.  1984.  A survey of the flora of the reens (drainage ditches)
of the Gwent Levels, 1982-83.  Peterborough, Nature Conservancy
Council.
McLean, I.F.G.  1982.  The Gwent Levels: a report on the terrestrial
invertebrates recorded in July 1981.  Peterborough, Nature
Conservancy Council.
Mountford, J.O., & Sheail, J.  1984.  Plant life and the watercourses of
the Somerset Levels and Moors. Peterborough, Nature
Conservancy Council.  
National Rivers Authority Wessex Region.  1992.  Somerset Levels
water level management and nature conservation strategy.
Almondsbury, NRA. 
Rodwell, J.S., ed.  1995.  British plant communities.  Volume 4: aquatic
communities, swamps & tall-herb fens. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.
SGS Environment.  1995.  Gwent Levels monitoring programme -
annual report 1994.  Cardiff, SGS Environment (Report to Laing-
GTM/Second Severn Crossing Group).
Winder, J., Spencer, J., & Wood, A.  1991.  A botanical survey of the
reens on the Gwent Levels.  Bangor, Countryside Council for
Wales.
B.  Further reading
Bratton, J.H., ed.  1991.  British Red Data Books: 3.  Invertebrates other
than insects. Peterborough, Joint Nature Conservation
Committee.
Cooter, J., Cropper, R., Heckford, R., McLean, I.F.G., Palmer, M., &
Stubbs, A.  1979.  A survey of the invertebrates of the Somerset
Levels.  Nature Conservancy Council, CSD Report, No. 324.
Davidson, N.C.  1991.  Breeding waders on British estuarine
grasslands.  Wader Study Group Bulletin, 61, Supplement: 36-41.
Davidson, N.C., Laffoley, D.d’A., Doody, J.P., Way, L.S., Gordon, J.,
Key, R., Drake, C.M., Pienkowski, M.W., Mitchell, R., & Duff,
K.L.  1991.  Nature conservation and estuaries in  Great Britain.
Peterborough, Nature Conservancy Council. 
Gibbs, D.J.  1991.  A quantitative baseline survey of the invertebrates of
the Gwent Levels, 1991.  Bangor, CCW.
Green, R.E.  1986.  The management of lowland wet grassland for
breeding waders. Sandy, RSPB.  (Unpublished.)
National Rivers Authority Welsh Region.  1991.  NRA sea defences,
Wentlooge and Caldicot Levels Environmental Statement.
Almondsbury, NRA. 
Pye, K., & French, P.W.  1993.  Erosion and accretion processes on
British saltmarshes.  London, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food.  
Raine, P.  1980.  The flora of drainage ditches, an ecological study of part
of the Somerset Levels.  MSc Thesis, University College London.
Robins, M., Davies, S.G.F., & Buisson, R.S.K.  1991.  An
internationally important wetland in crisis: The Somerset Levels and
Moors: a case history of wetland destruction.  Sandy, RSPB.
Sheppard, D.A.  1985.  A survey of the aquatic invertebrates from
selected ditches in the Somerset Levels.  Peterborough, Nature
Conservancy Council.  
C.  Contact names and addresses
Type of information
Contact address and telephone no.
Wet grassland - Cornwall
*English Nature, Devon &
Cornwall Local Team, Truro,
tel: [phone]
Wet grassland- Devon
*English Nature, Devon &
Cornwall Local Team,
Okehampton, tel: [phone]
Braunton Burrows
English Nature Site Manager,
Broadford Farm, Heddon Mill,
Braunton, Devon  EX33 2NQ,
tel: [phone]
Wet grassland - Somerset
*English Nature Somerset & Avon
& Avon
Local Team, Taunton,
tel: [phone]
Gordano Valley NNR
English Nature Site Manager,
1 Rangers Cottage, Valley Road,
Leigh Woods, Bristol  BS8 3PZ,
tel: [phone]
Wet grassland - Gwent and
*CCW, Cardiff, tel: [phone]
Glamorgan
Grassland ecology
*Grassland Ecologist, Lowlands
Team, English Nature HQ,
Peterborough, tel: [phone]
*Starred contact addresses are given in full in the Appendix.
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