Life in a Limestone Landscape

Welcome to the Life in a Limestone Landscape page. Here you can access all of the reports generated as a result of the 2003 confrence.

The conference consisted of a series of talks, displays and discussions about landscape, conservation and the future, hosted and supported by the Field Studies Council at Malham Tarn Field Centre.

Malham Tarn and the surrounding area has an extensive history of research work often based at the Field Centre. At a time of changing pressures on the rural landscape arising from CROW and other changes in rural-agricultural policy research findings should be central to the way that we respond. Life in a Limestone Landscape offered those involved in agriculture, conservation and research the opportunity to share experience and information.

Two aims to be considered in the 2003 seminar were:

1. The role of designated sites and research in nature conservation.
2. Co-ordination and dissemination of multi-stranded research.

The dates of the Fourth Malham Tarn Research Seminar are Friday 18 th – Sunday 20 th November 2005. This will provide us with an opportunity to consider research priorities for the future as well as sharing results from ongoing work. Ideas and suggestions about topics, speakers or other issues will be gratefully received.

Simply click on a link below to access the report that you wish to view.

Life

1. Grassland monitoring at Malham Tarn Close 1956 - 2001.
2. Variation in Malham population of large yellow sedge and its implications.
3. A future for White-clawed crayfish in the Dales?
4. Aquatic macrophyte ecology of Malham Tarn: 1994 - 2003.
5. The Mollusca of Malham
6. Butterflies of Malham Tarn: Fifty years of change.

Landscape

1. Changes in the Malham Tarn carbon cycle.
2. Erratic judgements, re-assessment of landform-based limestone errosion rates.
3. Preliminary observations on small to medium scale mature surface karst landforms in NW England.
4. The evidence for palaeokarst in the Malham high country.
5. Re-thinking the origin of limestone pavements.

Cowside Beck Reports

1. Cowside Beck Introduction.
2. Geomorphology.
3. Cowside Beck caves.
4. Water chemistry.
5. Lichen Survey
6. Freswater Invertibrates
7. Bryophytes
8. Diatoms
9. Algae
10. Wider dissemination of information and the Amateur / Academic interface