THE VEGETATION OF THE PEWSEY VALE ESCARPMENT, WILTSHIRE
- 1 March 1957
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Grass and Forage Science
- Vol. 12 (1) , 39-48
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2494.1957.tb00090.x
Abstract
Records were made on a standard point‐quadrat frame at intervals of 20 feet along fifteen transects down the chalk escarpment on the north side of Pewsey Vale in Wiltshire. These records demonstrate how great is the variability in chalk grassland, both in different parts of each transect and in corresponding parts of adjacent transects. Chalk‐down vegetation must be regarded as unstable and greatly altered by past and present use of the land for cultivation and grazing.Keywords
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