Falmouth Group 13 - 2017

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1. Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) 1990, ‘Fal and Helford Special Areas of Consideration (SAC)’ [online] http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0013112 [Accessed 7 Jul. 2017]


2. Langston, W. J., Chesman, B. S., Burt, G. R., Hawkins, S. J., Readman, J. and Worsfold, P. 2003, ‘Site Characterisation of the South West European Marine Sites’, Plymouth Marine Science Partnership, Marine Biological Association Occasional Publication No. 8, http://www.mba.ac.uk/nmbl/publications/charpub/pdf/Fal_Helford.pdf [Accessed 7 Jul. 2017]


3. Hall-Spencer, J. M. 1998, ‘Conservation issues related to maerl beds as habitats for mollsucs’, Journal of Conchology Special Publication No. 2, 271-286


4. naturalengland.org 2000, ‘Fal & Helford Special Area of Conservation Management Scheme’




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