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Table 17. Seasonal precipitation and temperature in BrecklandPrecipitation 1905-2007 (n=103)Temperature 1949-2008 (n=60)Spring(Mar-May)Summer(Jun-Aug)Autumn(Sep-Nov)Winter(Dec-Feb)Total rainfall perseason (mm)Number of droughtevents per season (>9days without rainfall)Number of extremerainfall events per season(>11.5mm in a day)Mean daily maximumtemperature (°C) perseasonMean daily minimumtemperature (°C) perseasonTotal number ofdays of air frostper seasonMean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SD Mean ± SDF=, P=, R² = χ² =, P= χ² =, P= F=, P=, R²= F=, P=, R²= χ² =, P=β =, SE = β =, SE = β =, SE = β =, SE = β =, SE = β =, SE =130.3 ± 43.6 1.0 ± 0.8 1.4 ± 1.3 13.4 ± 1.0 2.8 ± 0.9 24.6 ± 6.84.271, 0.041, 0.041 0.939, 0.332 7.092, 0.008 5.851, 0.019, 0.091 22.880,
Figure 17. Total seasonal precipitation per year (1949-2008, n=60) at SantonDownham weather stations in spring (+), autumn (○) and winter (∆). Allrelationships between year and total rainfall are significant (p
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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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Table 3. Grass-heath vegetation in
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The Conservation Resource: Designat
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All other SSSIs are less than 600 h
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GrasslandHeathWoodlandWetlandFlowin
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Page 51 and 52: Scheme for Stilt & Stalk Flies, Dra
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Page 69 and 70: Guild AnalysisA number of habitat a
Page 71 and 72: The specific questions for the work
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Page 117 and 118: Across patch arrangementLandscape c
Page 119 and 120: Across patcharrangementJuxtapositio
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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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a mosaic of overlapping ploughed, a
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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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Figure 31. Number of Breckland cons
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Restored pingo complexAt Great Hock
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Figure 32. Number of Breckland cons
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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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