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Volume 6.  Southern England (Buck in prep.).  Data presented
in the inventory are drawn largely from material collected
during 1989-1990 (updated to 1994 where appropriate) for
the Nature Conservancy Council’s Estuaries Review
(Davidson et al. 1991).  Saltmarsh data come originally from
Burd (1989a, b, c), whose surveys covered mostly
saltmarshes of >0.5 ha.
Hydrological data, e.g. catchment areas and river flows,
are available for some but not all estuaries as defined here
from sources including National Rivers Authority (now the
Environment Agency) Catchment Management Plans (now
known as Local Environment Action Plans (LEAPs) - see
section 10.2.8
).  
Chapter 10
gives further information on
Estuary Management Plans (
section 10.2.4
).  Catchment
areas and river flows are summarised in a five-year
catalogue of river flow gauging stations (Marsh & Lees
1993), but note that for whole estuary data further
interpretation is usually necessary. 
4.1.5  Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to Dr Pat Doody and John Barne (JNCC) for
helpful comments on draft texts.
4.1.6  Further sources of information
A.  References cited
Buck, A.L.  1993.  An inventory of UK estuaries.  2.  South-west Britain.
Peterborough, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Buck, A.L.  In prep.  An inventory of UK estuaries.  6.  Southern
England.  Peterborough, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Burd, F.  1989a.  The saltmarsh survey of Great Britain. Peterborough,
Nature Conservancy Council.  (Research & survey in nature
conservation, No. 17.)
Burd, F.  1989b.  Saltmarsh survey of Great Britain.  Regional
supplement No. 3.  South-west England.  Peterborough, Nature
Conservancy Council.  
Burd, F.  1989c.  Saltmarsh survey of Great Britain.  Regional supplement
No. 11.  South Wales.  Peterborough, Nature Conservancy
Council.  
Davidson, N.C., & Buck, A.L.  In prep.  An inventory of UK estuaries.
1.  Introduction and methods. Peterborough, Joint Nature
Conservation Committee.
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.M., & Duff,
K.L.  1991.  Nature conservation and estuaries in Great Britain.
Peterborough, Nature Conservancy Council.
Marsh, T.J., & Lees, M.L., eds. 1993.  Hydrometric register and statistics
1986-90. Wallingford, Institute of Hydrology.
National Rivers Authority.  1991.  The quality of rivers, canals and
estuaries in England and Wales.  Bristol, National Rivers
Authority.  (Water Quality Series, No. 4.)  
B.  Further reading
Further details of estuaries are in the Coastal & marine UKDMAP
datasets module (Barne et al. 1994), available from JNCC Coastal
Conservation Branch, Peterborough.  A list of selected further
reading for each estuary discussed in 
section 4.1
is given in Buck
(1993; in prep.) (
section 4.1.6 A
above).
Barne, J., Davidson, N.C., Hill, T.O., & Jones, M.  1994.  Coastal &
marine UKDMAP datasets: a user manual.  Peterborough, Joint
Nature Conservation Committee.
British Oceanographic Data Centre.  1992.  United Kingdom digital
marine atlas.  User guide.  Version 2.0.  Birkenhead, Natural
Environment Research Council, British Oceanographic Data
Centre.
Crothers, J.H., Little, C., & Mettam, C., eds.  1994.  Evolution and
change in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary.  Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, 51(1 & 2).
Davidson, N.C.  1991.  Estuaries, wildlife and man.  Peterborough,
Nature Conservancy Council.
Noble, L., ed. 1995.  Estuaries and coastal waters of the British Isles.
An annual bibliography of recent scientific papers.  Number 19.
Plymouth, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Marine Biological
Association.
Peck, K.  1993.  Estuaries inventory - research towards a better
understanding of the interactions between birds and human
activities on UK estuaries.  RSPB Conservation Review, 7: 42-46.
Smith, J., & Moore, J.  In prep.  Marine nature conservation review.
The marine biology of marine inlets in south-west Britain: area
summaries (MNCR Sectors 8-9).  JNCC Report.
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C.  Contact names and addresses
Type of information
Contact address and telephone no.
Integrated Coastal Database: *Coastal Conservation Branch,
national database of 
JNCC, Peterborough,
estuaries; coastal habitats;
tel: [phone]
statutory & non-statutory
protected sites.  Summary
data available also in Coastal
Directories UKDMAP display
version.
Statutory protected sites;
*Estuarine Ecologist/Estuaries
detailed wildlife site
Initiative Officer/Marine Ecologist,
information; coastal
English Nature HQ, Peterborough,
geomorphology for England. tel: [phone]
Estuaries Initiative & estuary
management plans.
Numerical and some
digitised data.
Statutory protected sites;
*Coastal Ecologist, CCW HQ,
detailed wildlife site
Bangor, tel: [phone]
information; coastal
geomorphology for Wales
Type of information
Contact address and telephone no.
RSPB Estuaries Inventory:
*Estuaries Inventory Project Officer,
mapped and numerical
RSPB, Sandy, tel: [phone]
information on land use and
selected human activities for
57 major UK estuaries.  In
Region 11 the inventory
covers the following estuaries:
Fal, Camel, Taw-Torridge,
and Severn.
National River Flow Archive: National Water Archive Manager,
catchments and river flows
Institute of Hydrology, Maclean
from upstream gauging
Building, Crowmarsh Gifford,
stations; interpreted analyses Wallingford, Oxfordshire
for whole estuaries
OX10 8BB, tel: [phone]
Water quality information:
*Environment Agency (EA)
south-west England
South-Western Region, Exeter,
tel: [phone]
Water quality information:
*EA Midlands Region, Solihull,
Gloucestershire
tel: [phone]
Water quality information:
*EA Welsh Region, Cardiff,
Wales
tel: [phone]
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*Starred contact addresses are given in full in the Appendix.

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