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vegetated shingle structures of the region were surveyed
during the NCC’s 1989 national shingle structure survey,
which used the National Vegetation Classification (NVC)
framework (Sneddon & Randall 1993a, b, 1994).  Not all
shingle sites fall into the category of shingle structures.
Many of the region’s fringing shingle beaches were
examined by the author in the early 1980s as part of a
survey sponsored by British Petroleum.  These sites were
only examined qualitatively and target notes were used to
describe physical and biological features of interest.  This
information became the basis of the geographical variation
data published in Randall (1989).
Loe Bar has been surveyed over many years by the
Biological Records Centre of the Cornwall Naturalists’ Trust
(Turk 1964; Murphy 1986), the Nature Conservancy (Haynes
1972) and the National Trust (1983).  The coast of Bridgwater
Bay is particularly well documented in Warren (1956).
3.3.5  Further sources of information
A.  References cited
Dorey, A.E., Little, C., & Barnes, R.S.K.  1973.  An ecological study of
the Swanpool, Falmouth.  ii. Hydrology and its relation to
animal distributions.  Estuarine and Coastal Marine Sciences, 1:
153-176.
Haynes, C.J.  1972.  Report on Loe Bar, Cornwall. London, Nature
Conservancy (unpublished report).
Kidson, C.  1960.  The shingle complexes of Bridgwater Bay.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28: 75-87.
Margetts, L.J., & David, R.W.  1981.  Review of the Cornish flora, 1980.
Truro, Institute of Cornish Studies.
Milner, H.B.  1922.  Origin of the Pliocene deposits of Cornwall.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 78: 348-363.
Murphy, R.J.  1986.  A study of Loe Bar.  Cornish Studies, 14: 23-33.
National Trust.  1983.  Biological survey - Loe Bar and Pool.
Cheltenham, National Trust (unpublished report).
Parkinson, M.  1980.  Coastlines of Devon.  Exeter, Devon County
Council.
Randall, R.E.  1989.  Geographical variation in British shingle
vegetation.  Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 101: 3-18.
Sneddon, P.  1992.  Variations in shingle vegetation around the British
coastline. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.
Sneddon, P., & Randall, R.E.  1993a.  Coastal vegetated shingle
structures of Great Britain: main report.  Peterborough, Joint
Nature Conservation Committee.
Sneddon, P., & Randall, R.E.  1993b.  Coastal vegetated shingle
structures of Great Britain: Appendix 1.  Wales.  Peterborough,
Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Sneddon, P., & Randall, R.E.  1994.  Coastal vegetated shingle
structures of Great Britain: Appendix 3. England.  Peterborough,
Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Steers, J.A.  1964.  The coastline of England and Wales.  London,
Cambridge University Press.
Stuart, A., & Hookway, R.J.S.  1954.  Coastal erosion at Westward Ho!.
Unpublished report to the Coastal Protection Committee of
Devon County Council.
Turk, S.M.  1964.  Report on Loe Bar and Loe Pool.  Unpublished
report, Monks Wood, Biological Records Centre.
Warren, A.  1956.  The coast of Bridgwater Bay. PhD thesis,
Fitzwilliam House, University of Cambridge. 
B.  Further reading
Further details of coastal habitat sites, including shingle structures
and shorelines, are available on the Coastal & marine UKDMAP
datasets module disseminated by JNCC Coastal Conservation
Branch, Peterborough.
Barne, J., Davidson, N.C., Hill, T.O., & Jones, M.  1994.  Coastal and
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.
Chapman, V.J.  1976.  Coastal vegetation. Oxford, Pergamon Press. 
Davey, F.H.  1909. Flora of Cornwall.  Penryn, F. Chegwidden.
Ferry B., Lodge, N., & Waters, S.  1990.  Dungeness: a vegetation
survey of a shingle beach.  Peterborough, Nature Conservancy
Council.  (Research & survey in nature conservation, No. 26.)
Fuller, R.M.  1987.  Vegetation establishment on shingle beaches.
Journal of Ecology, 75: 1077-1089.
Howarth, W.O.  1920.  Notes on the habitats and ecological
characters of three sub-varieties of Festuca rubra.  Journal of
Ecology, 8: 216-231.
Nature Conservancy Council.  1982.  Bridgwater Bay National Nature
Reserve - the effects of Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station.
Peterborough, unpublished report to Central Electricity
Generating Board.
Oliver, F.W.  1912.  The shingle beach as a plant habitat.  New
Phytologist, 11: 73-99.
Paton, J.A.  1970.  Flowers of the Cornish coast. Truro, B. Barton. 
Ratcliffe, D.A., ed.  1977.  A nature conservation review. London,
Cambridge University Press.
Scott, G.A.M.  1963.  The ecology of shingle beach plants.  Journal of
Ecology, 51: 517-527.
Sneddon, P., & Randall, R.E.  1989.  Vegetated shingle structures survey
of Great Britain: bibliography.  Peterborough, Nature Conservancy
Council.  (Research & survey in nature conservation, No. 20.)
C.  Contact names and addresses
Type of information
Contact address and telephone no.
Braunton Burrows
Site Manager, Braunton Burrows,
Braunton, Devon  EX33 2NQ, 
tel: [phone]
Shingle on the Devon coast
*English Nature Devon and
Cornwall Team, Okehampton,
tel: [phone]
Appledore and Westward
The Warden, The Burrows Centre,
Ho! shingle habitats
Northam Burrows Country Park,
Northam, Bideford  EX39 1LY,
tel: [phone]
Somerset and Avon coast
*English Nature Somerset and
Avon Team, Taunton,
tel: [phone]
Shingle on the Cornwall coast *English Nature Devon and
Cornwall Team, Truro,
tel: [phone]
Shingle on the Isles of Scilly
*Isles of Scilly Environmental
Trust, St. Mary’s, tel: [phone]
Biological records for
*Conservation Officer, Cornwall
Cornwall coast shingle
Wildlife Trust, Allet,
tel: [phone]
Biological records for Devon *Conservation Officer, Devon
coast shingle
Wildlife Trust, Exeter,
tel: [phone]
Gwent, Mid Glamorgan & 
*CCW Cardiff, tel: [phone]
S. Glamorgan coast shingle
*Starred contact addresses are given in full in the Appendix.
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