A whole ecosystem of unique plant species and small animals can be found between the cracks of large limestone pavements, also known as grikes. One recent United Kingdom limestone pavement survey, ...

Anyone out winter walking in the Yorkshire dales will probably be familiar with the dramatic scenery of limestone pavements. Distinctive and beautiful, they can also be found elsewhere in Britain, as ...

Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat for, are under threat in north-west England, a new study has found. Lancaster University has repeated a study, which was ...

Fifty years of change on iconic limestone pavements has revealed mixed fortunes for one of the most distinctive landscapes in the UK Fifty years of change on iconic limestone pavements has revealed ...

Limestone pavements on the narrow northern outcrop of Carboniferous Limestone of the main South Wales coal basin are of restricted distribution when compared with the extent of drift-covered areas ...

1 Environmental fluctuations can hypothetically promote greater species diversity, but this has rarely been experimentally tested in plant communities. We predicted that high temporal variability in ...

A farmer has been ordered to pay over €9,300 in penalties for the destruction of 10 acres of “an extremely rare and unique" limestone pavement habitat in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) on the ...