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• Why is Studland unique?
• What management issues affect the NNR?• How does Studland fit into the bigger
picture of the Natural Area?
• What are the major challenges ahead?
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Why is Studland Unique? - 1
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Why is Studland Unique? - 2
Ecological Range
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Why is Studland Unique? - 3Plant colonisation and
succession
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Ecological Process
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Why is Studland Unique? - 4
Specialists
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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 1
Conflict 1 - Nature .v. Nature• Heathland .v. Scots Pine.• Rhododendron.• Pirri-pirri burr (from New
Zealand via scrap wool for soil treatment) widespread in car parks.
• Slipper Limpet (from North America with introduced Oysters) now commonest shell on the beach.
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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 2
Conflict 2 - People .v. People
• Jet skis .v. Swimmers.
• Naturists .v. Clothed.
• Dog walkers .v. Horse riders & Bathers.
• Bird Watchers and everyone else (especially Naturists!).
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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 3
Conflict 3 - People .v. Nature• Trampling destroys vegetation cover, allowing dune "blow-
outs" to occur. • Dog walkers disturbing ground nesting birds.• Picnickers and litter.• Fire risks.
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What are the Main Management Strategies? - 1
Managing Conflicts• Zoning.• Provision. • Exclusion.• Policing.• Educating &
informing.
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What are the Main Management Strategies? - 2
Identify features of high national / international significance at Studland
Plant communities - Foredune - Mobile dunes - Dune grassland - Dune heath - Dry, humid and wet heathland - Mires and bog-pools Habitats
Species
Reptiles - Sand lizard, Smooth snake
Breeding birds - Dartford warbler - Nightjar - Hobby
Invertebrates - Moths - Ground and shore
bugs - Beetles - Grasshoppers and crickets
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What are the Major Challenges Ahead?
• Traffic:4.3 M visitors and rising. • Park and ride? Steam railway extensions?• Car park - potentially diminishing - coastal erosion. • Mad cows and mad bureaucracy.
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Discuss…
• Do conservation policies hinder conservation?
• Is the environment paying for the mistakes of intensified farming?
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Management Summary
UK Biodiversity Action Plan 1994UK Biodiversity Action Plan 1994
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Purbeck Biodiversity Action Plan
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