Carly Stevens receives funding for her work on limestone pavements from the Natural Environment Research Council. This research was funded by The Botanical Research Fund, The Wildflower Society ...

The habitats in these grikes are important for conservation, since limestone pavements only cover an area of around 28km 2 across Great Britain, equivalent to the size of a small town.

Limestone Pavements are bare limestone rock surfaces composed of slabs of rock (clints), separated by variable-width vertical cracks (grikes) . These grikes have developed by weathering and ...

Gait Barrows national nature reserve is considered to be one of Britain's most important limestone landscapes [BBC] Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat ...

The findings, which reveal large changes since the 1970s, are from the first national assessment in half a century of plants and vegetation in Britain's rare and iconic limestone pavements, which ...

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 ...