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Aim: To find out how and why the plants growing on a heathland slope change and vary as I move downhill.
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Aim: To find out how and why the plants growing on a heathland slope change and vary as I move downhill. Introduction The New Forest is situated in Hampshire on the South Coast of England, and it covers over 90000 acres. When William the Conqueror became King of England in 1066 he set the New Forest aside as a Royal hunting Forest in 1079, for private use only. He cleared the woodland to aid hunting, and heathland, scrub vegetation grew in place of the trees. Many types of plant grow on the heathland, heather is the most common and comes in three types. Various environmental factors affect the type of plant and it's location, I will be investigating these factors, such as soil type, weather, climate and aspect and drawing conclusions based on fieldwork carried out on Blackwell Common in late June. Hypothesis I predict the top of the slope will...
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