British Wildlife 28.2 December 2016

Habitat management news

The invasive nature of the New Zealand Pigmyweed (Australian Swamp Stonecrop) Crassula helmsii makes it a regular feature of these pages: see, for example, Bridge 2005, Techniques for controlling New Zealand Pygmyweed (BW 17: 19) and Charlton 2011, Eradication of New Zealand Pigmyweed from grazing marshes (BW 23: 32–33). This latest reviews a paper in Conservation Evidence by Paul and Lucy Sims, who used the combined technique of herbicide and burial at two ponds on Mile Cross Marsh, Norfolk.

Dredged sediment – still an under-used conservation resource The botanical importance of the Insh Marshes, a floodplain swamp in northern Scotland
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