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Percent of speciesTable 15. Total number of species, number of Red Data Book (RDB), Rare / Scarce / Notable and BAPspecies in the UK and in the 23 10 km Breckland grid squares. Figures in parentheses include additionalnotified species (listed in Atlases and indicated by I. Perry) that were not included in the JNCC list; thesewere not considered when presenting the percentage of notified species represented in BrecklandNo. speciesrecordedBreckland 1 2 % of UK compared toUKBrecklandArea (km 2 ) 2300 (1019) 244,820 0.9 (0.4) %UK RDB 612 (613) 3814 16.0 %Notable, Rare and Scarce 3 1238 (1317) 4561 27.1 %BAP 317 1150 27.5 %Bird: Red 43 61 70.5 %Global RDB 3 69 4.3 %Bird: Amber 106 126 84.1 %Total number of2020 (2120) 7757 26.0%designated species1Breckland species totals exclude sub-species and species considered to be doubtful records, but includes species now consideredextinct (see Methodology for more details).2 Species from JNCC designation list of taxon designations (http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-3408; updated 27/07/2010). This list alsoincludes marine species and includes designations for subspecies; therefore the proportion of Breckland species in comparison withUK terrestrial species is an underestimate.3Notable / A / B and Status: NS / NR – excluding marine species.100%90%80%70%Vertebrate (excl birdsand mammals)Vascular plantsLower plantsFungi & lichens60%50%40%30%20%SpiderBeetleTrue bugTrue flyHymenopteraButterflyMothOther invertebrate10%0%BAP RDB Notable, NationallyRare/ScarceBrecklandspecialistFigure 12. Proportion of Breckland specialists (excluding coastal specialists) and species with conservationdesignations from different taxonomic groups86
Figure 13. Proportion of Breckland specialist species from different taxonomic groups. For definitions ofBreckland specialist categories see Methodology section.Figure 14. Venn diagram showing the number of species (including birds and mammals) designated asBAP, those designated as RDB, Notable, Rare and Scarce or Bird: Red (‘Rare’) and those selected asBreckland specialists (coastal Breckland specialists are given in parentheses).87
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Securing Biodiversityin BrecklandGu
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Commissioning GroupNeil Featherston
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Wind-blown sand guild .............
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milder winters and increased winter
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Creating broad ruderal and disturbe
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Introduction“Few of the lowland d
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Inland DunesThe 1km wide dune and b
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Following the Black Death of the mi
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The area of grass-heath declined by
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PingosPingos are ground water fed p
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Breckland Conservation and the Need
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SSSI. The Breckland Forest SSSI cit
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The Breckland Biodiversity Audit ha
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The Breckland bio-geographic region
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polygons of alternating calcareous
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quality calcareous fen communities
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Figure 2. The extent of Breckland,
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Figure 26. Number of Breckland cons
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Open with sward mosaics guildChryso
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Grazing without physical disturbanc
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Deadwood in an open-woodland ecoton
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Specific Requirement in a Variety o
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Management to Sustain Dry Terrestri
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Heather should rather be considered
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GrazingrequirementsLightly sheep-gr
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Wind-blown sandThere is great uncer
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IntensityProcess Technique Immediat
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Complex Sward MosaicsComplex sward
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Management for Assemblages of Light
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Management for Species of Physicall
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Key Recommendations for Cultivated
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Shallow cultivation is preferable t
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Maidscross Hill is largely overgrow
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Ecological Requirements of Wetland
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numbers of conservation priority sp
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Recommendation Requirements of wetl
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Restored pingo complexAt Great Hock
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the difficulties of achieving this
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Strategic Challenges to Biodiversit
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Table 22. Problems arising from poo
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Recommendation: Natural England and
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It is therefore vital to carefully
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Creating networks for resilienceTo
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More ambitious possibilities that c
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Figure 34. Example of a potential c
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Connectivity networks© Neal Armour
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and consider whether these repeated
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Ensure that scrub removal, ploughin
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ReferencesADAS. (1997) Biological M
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Haes, E. C. M. & Harding, P. T. (19
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Sastre, B.(2003). Ground spider com
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