Psammosere fieldwork!

"WHAT kind of fieldwork?", I hear you saying. OK... this won't make a huge amount of sense just now but it will later in the year when we are doing the Biosphere unit but as it happened last week and you can link to it anytime from the labels in the side bar, I will post it now.

Psammoseres are the succession of vegetation which develops across sand dunes and last Sunday, the AH Geography and Biology groups did a bit of associated fieldwork. While most of you were still enjoying a Sunday morning lie in, we were out at Tentsmuir setting up transects, measuring slopes and noting plants.

Laying out quadrats and counting species...

Measuring the slope angle of the dunes using a clinometer...

Admiring a slack where the relief intersects the water table........
producing a whole different community of plants...

and avoiding the Buckthorn which is well named!