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BIO 3013 http://www.wicken.org.uk/images Wicken Fen Student name: Eirini Pavlidi Student number: 2433553 Module name: Global Biodiversity Management Module Leaders: Lucy A. Sutherland and Stephen Kett Introduction Wicken Fen is a wetland nature reserve located close to Cambridgeshire in England. It is the oldest nature reserve in Britain and the first reserve obtained by the National Trust in 1899. The reserve contains farmland, fenland, reed beds and marsh. Wicken Fen is one of the four remaining wild fens in the Great Fen Basin area of East Anglia. Those 4 wild fens account for only 0.1% of the former fens, the majority of which have now been converted to cultivated land (http://www.wicken.org.uk/). Wicken Fen's surface is approximately two meters higher than the surrounding land. This is because although the majority of the soil in the area was drained, and ploughed, Wicken Fen was never drained, and therefore still stands at a higher level. It is due to this absence...

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