Assignment Sample on Habitat Management
Introduction
“Tides well dale” is a type of limestone valley; it is generally short and dry. It is situated in the surrounding of the Tides well villages, which is in England in Peak Districts at Derbyshire. And on one side of this limestone valley, there is also a farmland Plateau. At the end of this valley, Miller’s Dale is situated, and over this, the steam is running through it. The length of this dale is nearly 1.1 miles, and it is situated in the north-south of England. The width of the dale is 820 ft or 250 meters. And the Depth of this Dale is 164 ft or 50 meters. The coordinates of the “Tides well dale” are i.7794 west and 53.2663 degrees north. And the river beside it is Brook Head. In this assessment, mainly a report is made based on the vegetations of this dale. And to understand it properly, an investigation was done in 2018 and 2019, and both the results are given here in detail.
Discussion
To know about the details of this dale at first, a person needs to know about the soil, climate, and history of this dale (Bogotá‐Angel, 2021). This dale was formed 350 million years ago. And it is imagined that the Limestone Carboniferous by which it is formed was generated naturally or born millions of years ago. It is generally formed from the sediments and shells of the tropical sea. And the dale is based on a landscape which is an ice sheet sculpture which was generated 20,000 years ago.
There is also a natural reservoir on the east side of this dale, and it is very famous or well known that is known as Disused-Basalt quarry. It is increasing the entire beauty of the places, and here there are a lot of animals also. Peoples are coming from different places to visit it. Here in the Deal, there is also dolerite rock, and it was generated from the volcanoes lava. And not only from this lava, but the limestone called Dolerite rocks are also produced. Here, the scientists are researching the rocks found here to know about the details of the ancient age from these rocks and about that ancient times vegetation and people.
This Deal is in between two beautiful places are Bake well and Buxton. Here in this Deal, there is a lot of woodland and ancient flowers as well as plants. Many of these plants’ medicines are also produced, and the names of some wildflower plants are Bird’s foot-trefoil, Lady’s bedstraw, ox eye-daisy. And here, different birds are also coming from different places. And many insects are also found here, and different colored butterflies are also found here in this dale (Das, 2020).
At the foot of this dale, there is also an overhanging rock outcrop known as the Ravens or. Here there is also a spot where people come for rock climbing. It is nearly 50 meters long. And there are almost 200 routes. Here there is a 9a route which is the hardest route of rock climbing. And not only are this rock but there also many other rocks which are itself pitches of the rock climbing. Overall the whole place is very beautiful and attractive. Here the people mainly go to spend their holidays.
There is a way which goes downwards of this dale to the Miller’s dale. And it is southwest of 1km. There is a beautiful scene of mature tree beech. And a person can easily visit it as it is a footpath. And if a person is traveling through this footpath, he or she can see many very nice side scenes. They include Mensal Trail, Litton Mill, etc.
Climate, soil, and vegetations of Trade well dale
In the soil process mediations, there is an impact on the vegetation, and the climate changes are also affecting the agitations of a place. And the vegetations of this area also depend on the temperature of the ground level as well as the nutrient dynamics and the water body consistency (Di Musician, 2021). And here, the ecosystem is also average. The soil is not appropriate here for cultivation. Here there are grasslands, and these are also affecting the plant communications.
Here there are different places of the valley, and its pH values are given as well as that all the places of this dale consist of silt, clay, and sand but they are in different levels. They are also mentioned in the result below. Their texture percentages are also given here, and the amount of phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and manganese are given here for different pH of soils. Here there are mainly eight places and eight types of soils.
Among them there is Top the slope soils, Middle of the slope soil, main valley side bottom slope soil, lime outcrop soil, Adit slope soil, valley bottom soil, woodland soils, and plateau soils. Mainly the soil of this sale is rocky type soil.
Rocky soil
Rocky soil is a type of poor drainage type of soil, and it is not good for agriculture. Because this soil consists of a very low level of moisture (Douglass, 2018), and it is also blocking the roots of the trees, and that is the reason plants are not able to grow in this area. And the plants here are unable to take the nutrients from the soil for their growth because of the poor drainage of the soil. This is generally found on the hilly area side where no agriculture is possible. Only some plants like Debdaru are grown there.
Sandy soil
Sandy soils are soils which are very much dry, warm, and as well as that very light in weight. In this soil, there is a very low amount of nutrients present, and along with this, sandy soils are acidic. As these soils are having a small number of clay properties and a lot amount of sand properties, they are very light weighted (Figueredo, 2019). This is the only soil which is very easy. And in this type of soil, the drainage of the water is also very fast. It is mainly located in the semi-arid plains and in the arid plains areas.
Silt soil
Silt is a dust-like or solid type of sediment that is easily deposited or transported by the wind, water, or ice. And these soils are made from the remaining particles of the minerals and the rocks. This soil size is smaller than the sands, but they are bigger than the clay particles. And the single particles of these soils are very much small, and it is very much difficult if a person wants to see the individual particles of the soils (GRIGOROV, 2020). If the soils are wet, then they are very slippery. In this soil, agriculture is possible. It is generally seen on the side of the lakes, harbors, and wetlands.
Clay soil
Clay soils are the soils which generally have a high percentage of nutrients. There are generally four types of clay soils, and they are differentiated on the basis of the clay percentages. It is such a type of soil that is remaining wet and cold in the winter and dry in the summer (Jowsey, 2019). And this type of soil can hold the water for a long time, and that is the reason this is appropriate for agriculture. The first of clay soil is having 0 to 10 percentages of clay. The second type of clay soils has 10 percent to 25 percent of clay and the third type of soils have 25 percent to 40 percent of clay, and the last one has 40 percent of clay.
The climate of the “Tides well dale.”
Generally, this area is 57 meters above sea level, and commonly the temperature of this area is very high, and it often rains here heavily (Korkonen, 2021). In the dry months also there is rainfall, and the average temperature of this dale is generally 57 degrees Fahrenheit or 11 degrees centigrade. So these are the details of the climate of the dale in the overall year.
Vegetations of dale
Here not a large amount of agriculture is seen. Some flowers are grown here, and also different types of grasses are also grown here. Name of some flowers which are growing here are- yarrow, “ladies’ mantle”, “daisy”, “harebell”, “common mouse-ear”, “creeping thistle”, “spear thistle”, “pignut”, “cleavers”, “crossword”, “ladies’ bedstraw”, “heath bedstraw”, “limestone bedstraw”, “wood avens”, “bitter vetch”, “fairy flax”, “bird’s foot trefoil”, “black medick”, “mouse-ear hawkweed”, “burnet saxifrage”, “ribwort plantain”, “tormentil,barren strawberry”, “self-heal”, “creeping buttercup”, “common sorrel”, “broad-leaved dock”, “salad burnet”, “betony”, “dandelion”, “red clover”, “white clover”, “nettle”, “bilberry”, “germander speedwell”, “common dog violet” (Kornilios and Thanou, 2019). These are the types of some plants which are grown in the Tides well dale area, and their percentages of growth and scientific names are all given in the below result points of the report. This is gained by the investigations by the persons. In the years 2018 and 2019. Along with these are some grass species also which are grown in this dale area. They are- “common bent”, “creeping bent”, ‘sweet vernal grass”, “quaking grass”, “crested dog’s-tail”, “coltsfoot”, “heath grass”, ‘tufted hair-grass”, “sheep’s fescue”, “red fescue”, ‘meadow fescue”, “Yorkshire fog”, ‘perennial ryegrass”, “mat grass”, ‘Timothy grass”, ‘smooth meadow-grass” (Liu, 2018). And the other types of species which are found here are- Hawthorne, field woodrush, common century.
So, these are the details of the species and plants that are grown in the dale of Tides well.
Result
In this part, the texture and the minerals which are present in the different parts of the soils are measured. And the values are given here.
The topmost part of the valley side result
- The ph level of this soil was 4.9. The organic matter present there is 29.5 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 67 and slit, and clay percentages are 26 and 7 percentages (Moayedi, 2020). As well as this the percentages of P = 12 mg/kg,Ca = 2951 mg/kg,Mg= 750.9 mg/kg and K = 602.3 mg/kg.
- The ph level of this soil was 5.0. The organic matter present there is 19.5 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 70 and slit, and clay percentages are 26 and 4 percentages (Noble, 2018). As well as this the percentages of P = 12.8 mg/kg,Ca = 2892.3 mg/kg,Mg= 818.5 mg/kg and K = 548.0 mg/kg.
Middlemost part of the valley side result
- The ph level of this soil was 5.1 The organic matter present there is 23.0 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 86.0 and slit, and clay percentages are 8 and 6 percentages. As well as this the percentages of P = 11.3 mg/kg,Ca = 2328.3 mg/kg,Mg= 433.2 mg/kg and K = 258.1 mg/kg.
- The ph level of this soil was 5.2. The organic matter present there is 23.0 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 86 and slit, and clay percentages are 8 and 6 percentages (Palomba, 2017). As well as this the percentages of P = 12 mg/kg,Ca = 2351.6 mg/kg,Mg= 394.2 mg/kg and K = 234.9 mg/kg.
Bottom side slope of the valley
- The ph level of this soil was 5.5. The organic matter present there is 35.0 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 69 and slit, and clay percentages are 27 and 4 percentages (Pozzobon, 2021). As well as this the percentages of P = 25 mg/kg,Ca = 19800 mg/kg,Mg= 782 mg/kg and K = 822 mg/kg.
Limestone outcrop
- The ph level of this soil was 7.4 The organic matter present there is 18 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 67 and slit, and clay percentages are 27 and 6 percentages. As well as this the percentages of P = 39 mg/kg,Ca = 27894.6 mg/kg,Mg= 679.1 mg/kg and K = 515.1 mg/kg.
Adit Spoil
- The ph level of this soil was 5.8. The organic matter present there is 15 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 60 and slit, and clay percentages are 38 and 2 percentages. As well as this the percentages of P = 17 mg/kg,Ca = 21074 mg/kg,Mg= 1998 mg/kg and K = 518 mg/kg.
Plateau
- The ph level of this soil was 5.1. The organic matter present there is 24.7 percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 90 and slit, and clay percentages are 8 and 2 percentages (Raimondi, 2019). As well as this the percentages of P = 38 mg/kg,Ca = 11512.1 mg/kg,Mg= 540.0 mg/kg and K = 480.0mg/kg.
Bottom of the valley
- The ph level of this soil was 7.6. The organic matter present there is 33.1percent. And sand percentages present in this soil are 67 and slit, and clay percentages are 69 and 27 percentages (Ranjard, 2018). As well as this the percentages of P = 4 mg/kg,Ca = 25 mg/kg,Mg= 19800 mg/kg and K = 972 mg/kg.
The scientific name of the species
Common name scientific name
- Yarrow Achillea millefolium
- ladies’ mantle Alchemilla Vulgaris
- Daisy Bellis perennis
- harebell Campanula rotundifolia
- common-mouse-ear Cerastium fontanum
- “creeping thistle” Cirsium arvense
- “spear thistle” Cirsium vulgare
- Pignut Conopodium majus
- Cleavers Galium aparine
- crosswort Galium crucial
- ladies’ bedstraw Galium verum
- heath bedstraw Galium saxatile
- limestone bedstraw Galium sterneri
- wood avens Geum urbanum
- fairy flax Linum cathartic
- bird’s foot-trefoil Lotus corniculatus
- black-medick Medicago lupulina
- mouse-ear-hawkweed Pilosella officinarum
- burnet saxifrage Pimpinella Saxifraga
- ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata
- Tormentil Potentilla erecta
- barren strawberry Potentilla sterilis
- Selfheal Prunella vulgaris
- creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens
- common sorrel Rumex acetosa
- broad-leaved dock Rumex obtusifolius
- salad burnet Sanguisorba minor
- Betony Stachys officinalis
- Dandelion Taraxacum agg
- Taraxacum agg Trifolium pratense
- white clover Trifolium repens
- Nettle Urtica dioica
- Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus
- germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys
- common dog-violet Viola riviniana
Now, this number 1 species is located only on the Limestone Out scope side, and it is there in overall 40 percentages. Number two species is also located only in the Limestone Out scope side, and there it is in 2 percentages only. Number 3 species are located in the Plateau regions overall at five percentages. Number 4 species is located at the Top of the valley slope as well as the Middle and bottom of the slope, audit spoil and limestone outcrop in 20,5,3 percentages, 1,3,1 percentages, 1,2,1 percentages, 7,15 and 25 percentages. Species 5 is located in the Plateau, Top of the valley, the bottom of the valley, and the audit spoil. It is present in the percentages of 5, 15, 5 percentages, two percentages, and 5 and 6 percentages (Zhang, 2017). Number 6 species is located in the Plateau, Top of the valley, lower of the valley, and in the limestone outcrop and it is present in the percentages of 10 percent, 10, 2, 1 percentage, two percentages, and five percentages. Number 7 species is located on the lower side of the valley, the bottom of the valley, and in the limestone crop. And it is present in the percentages of 20, 40 percentages, 10, 5, 5 percentages and 1percentage. Number 8 species is located in the lower slope of the valley, the bottom slope of the valley, and audit spoil. And it is present in the percentages of 10 percentages, four percentages and three percentages. Number 9 species is located in the Plateau in only 2 percentages and number 10 species is located in the Limestone outcrop only and it is located in percentages of 2 and 3 percentages. Number 11 species only in the Limestone crop and it is present there in percentages of 10, 40 and 2 percentages. Number 12 species is located in Top of the valley, Middle of the valley, lower part of the valley and audit spoil. And it is present in the percentages of 5, 5,1 percentages, 5,10,5 percentages,10,5,5,10 percentages and 1,3 percentages. Number 13 species is only located at the limestone outcrop and it is present in 10 percentages. Number 15 species is located at the Top and middle part of the valley and the percentages are 30, 3, 3 percentages and 4,2,2,2 percentages. Number 16 species is located in the lower side of the valley slope and it is present in 20 percentages, Number 17 species is located in the Middle of the slope, lower part of the slope and in the limestone outcrop in 3 percentages, 1,2 percentages and 1,4 percentages. Number 18 and number 19 species are located in the limestone Outcrop side and it is present in 5 and 1 percentage. Number 21 species is located in the Top of the valley and in the audit spoil and in the limestone outcrop of the valleys (White, 2021). And it is present in 5, 2,1 percentages 1 and 2 percentages. 22 species are located on the Top, middle and lower part of the valleys and it is present in the percentages of 25 percentages, 1,2,3,4 percentages and .15, 20 and 25 percentages.
Conclusion
So, from here it can be concluded that the Tides well dale is a very beautiful place of England and there are rivers and plateaus here and people come here to spend their holidays mostly. And it is situated high from the sea level and in these places there is woodland also. And mainly here four types of soil are located. That is rocky, slit, clay and sand soils. And as well as that the geographical situations of this dale is also given here in detail and the climate of this dale is given here. The soil containing which type of minerals is also discussed here and there values are also given here. And mainly the agitations of this dale are given here and the species which are growing here is also mentioned in this report and the scientific name of the species and the angle of the slope are also discussed here. So, these are the overall details of the dale. A person can get an overall idea of this Tides well dale from this report.
Reference List
Journals
Das, S. (2020). Flood susceptibility mapping of the Western Ghat coastal belt using multi-source geospatial data and analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 20, 100379. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sumit_Das16/publication/344307180_Supplementary_filespdf/data/5f657526458515b7cf3ed27b/Supplementary-files.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Di Musciano, M., Zannini, P., Ferrara, C., Spina, L., Nascimbene, J., Vetaas, O. R., … & Chiarucci, A. (2021). Investigating elevational gradients of species richness in a Mediterranean plant hotspot using a published flora. Frontiers of Biogeography. Retrieved from: https://escholarship.org/content/qt21r2804z/qt21r2804z.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Douglass, K., Antonites, A. R., Morales, E. M. Q., Grealy, A., Bunce, M., Bruwer, C., & Gough, C. (2018). Multi-analytical approach to zooarchaeological assemblages elucidates Late Holocene coastal lifeways in southwest Madagascar. Quaternary International, 471, 111-131. Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/download/54668650/Douglass_et_al_2017.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Figueredo, A. J., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Fernandes, H. B. F., Lomayesva, S. L., Hertler, S. C., & Sarraf, M. A. (2019). War and peace: A diachronic social biogeography of life history strategy and between-group relations in two western European populations. Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 10(1), 36-75. Retrieved from: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jmmss/article/download/23522/22220 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
GRIGOROV, B., & ASSENOV, A. PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AS A SUBDISCIPLINE OF BIOGEOGRAPHY. Retrieved from: https://www.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/bul/layout/set/print/content/download/193412/1327625/version/1/file/08_Ann_Tom_110_geography_109-122.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Jowsey, C., & Milner, G. (2020). Report No: AP2020-082. Scientist. Retrieved from: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1.-Part-1-11-Pages-from-Preliminary-Site-Investigation-Aurora.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Korkonen, S. (2020). Chrysophyte stomatocysts and their biogeography in Finland. Retrieved from: https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/319751/korkonen_sanna_dissertation_2020.pdf?sequence=1 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Kornilios, P., Thanou, E., Lymberakis, P., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutaş, Y., & Leaché, A. (2019). Genome‐wide markers untangle the green‐lizard radiation in the Aegean Sea and support a rare biogeographical pattern. Journal of Biogeography, 46(3), 552-567. Retrieved from: https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/196314/3/green%E2%80%90lizard_radiation_Kornilios.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Liu, Y., Debeljak, P., Rembauville, M., Blain, S., & Obernosterer, I. (2019). Diatoms shape the biogeography of heterotrophic prokaryotes in early spring in the Southern Ocean. Environmental microbiology, 21(4), 1452-1465. Retrieved from: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02383818/file/Liu_2018_EM_HAL_merged.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Moayedi, H., Osouli, A., Bui, D. T., Kok Foong, L., Nguyen, H., & Kalantar, B. (2019). Two novel neural-evolutionary predictive techniques of dragonfly algorithm (DA) and biogeography-based optimization (BBO) for landslide susceptibility analysis. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 10(1), 2429-2453. Retrieved from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19475705.2019.1699608 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Noble, A. S. (2018). Environmental and biogeographical drivers of the Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka) phyllosphere microbiome (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Waikato). Retrieved from: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/11945/thesis.pdf?sequence=4 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Palomba, A., Tanca, A., Fraumene, C., Abbondio, M., Fancello, F., Atzori, A. S., & Uzzau, S. (2017). Multi-omic biogeography of the gastrointestinal microbiota of a pre-weaned lamb. Proteomes, 5(4), 36. Retrieved from: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/5/4/36/pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Pozzobon, A. P. B., Gonçalves, P. R., Anderson, J. D., Rocha, L. A., de Astarloa, J. M. D., & Di Dario, F. (2021). Phylogenetic relationships, genetic diversity and biogeography of menhadens, genus Brevoortia (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 160, 107108. Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/download/65770650/Phylogenetics_proofs.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Raimondi, P. T., Miner, C. M., Menge, B. A., Blanchette, C. A., & Lohse, D. P. (2019). QUANTITATIVE BIOGEOGRAPHY. Oceanography, 32(3), 26-37. Retrieved from: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10154639 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Ranjard, L. Biogeography of soil Bacterial Networks along a Gradient of Cropping Intensity. Retrieved from: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217887767.pdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
White, A. E., Dey, K. K., Stephens, M., & Price, T. D. (2021). Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(3), 685-696. Retrieved from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/geb.13250 [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Zhang, S. Y., Su, J. Q., Sun, G. X., Yang, Y., Zhao, Y., Ding, J., … & Zhu, Y. G. (2017). Land scale biogeography of arsenic biotransformation genes in estuarine wetland. Environmental microbiology, 19(6), 2468-2482. Retrieved from: https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/oa-edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.1201/9781351046633-47&type=chapterpdf [Retrieved on: 05/05/2021]
Know more about UniqueSubmission’s other writing services:
