Day 5 - Sand dunes

Good Morning viewers!

This is Sherlyn and Corrie reporting live from the Nettlecombe FSC centre.Today, we visited the Braunton burrows to study Sand Dunes Succession.

Today we learnt about psammoseral succession. It is the sequential change in a sand dune community over time. From the bare sand dunes, vegetation grows to hold the sand together and gradually break down to become nutrients. This makes it favourable for grasses and later on, for herbaceous plants and shrubs to grow. The shrubs then act as a shield to protect the trees that are growing from predators. We learnt about the many different sections of the sand dunes and how the plants adapted the different environmental conditions. 

After dinner, we compiled and analyse the data. The tutors complimented us for collecting such accurate data. They told us that these data will be kept as their secondary data for future references. We learnt so much about fieldwork, ecology and successions today. 

It will be our last day of fieldwork at the stream tomorrow. Nevertheless, it will be another enriching day! :)

That's all for today! This is Sherlyn and Corrie signing off from the areUoK news!