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Research
plays a very important part in furthering our understanding of the stream
and its response to, for instance, rainstorms and pollution incidents. We
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Ecological
Quality
We
have found only one historic study which describes the wildlife
habitat quality of the stream and valley:
1994: The environmental quality of a small urban water course, the Bourne
Stream (Dorset), assessed with macroinvertebrate data.
Patrick D. Armitage, John H. Blackburn & Kay
L. Symes,
Institute of Freshwater Ecology.
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 The
1994 study has recently been followed up by, and results compared with a 2003
ecological survey of the SUDS [more] as part of the requirement for the Bourne Valley Water Level
Management Plan:
2005: Ecological Survey of the Bourne Stream in the Bourne
Valley SSSI, Poole, Dorset. Robert Aquilina,
Environmental Quality Consultant
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Local ecological surveys are
also carried out at project sites before and after major projects: |
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 Student
Research
Partnership work attracts a number of research projects and assignments by
students from Bournemouth University, University of Southampton,
University of the West of England and most recently from the Open
University
Bourne Valley SSSI
Water Level Management Plan
The Bourne Valley Water Level Management
Plan (WLMP) was prepared for Borough of Poole Leisure Services unit.
It provides a formal basis for future management of water levels within
the SSSI [more].
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