Coastal Habitat
- Created by: HLeiper
- Created on: 02-04-14 19:10
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- Coastal Habitat (Studland Bay)
- Dorset, South West England
- Heathland is a SSSI and a nature reserve
- Reptiles - adders, grass snakes, sand lizards and slow worms
- Thick scaly skin to reduce water loss. Protects them from rough under growth on the heathland
- Birds - Dartford warblers, shelducks and grebes
- Grebes - dive to get food
- Fish - seahorses
- Plants - marram grass, lyme grass and heather
- Marram Grass - folded leaves to water loss in sandy dunes. Long roots - stabilise in sand
- Boardwalks - sand beneath protected
- Fenced off - dunes recover, marram grass replanted
- Information signs - enjoy without damaging, why they are important
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