2013 Natural England condition assessment of the Lymington - Keyhaven Saline Lagoons

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"APEM Ltd. and ARTOO Marine Biology Consultants were commissioned by Natural England to conduct repeat condition-monitoring of the coastal lagoons of significant conservation merit within the Solent and Isle of Wight region on the south coast of England. The methods employed within this study followed previous monitoring activities reporting on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of five key lagoonal quality features namely benthos, nekton, flora & fauna amongst vegetation, epifauna and physico-chemical condition. Quantitative macroinfaunal benthic samples were provided to Natural England to be analysed by Thomson Ecology. The Keyhaven to Lymington lagoons system is a sequence of ten coastal saline lagoons from Keyhaven Lagoon to Normandy Farm, running along the northern shore-line of the western Solent, Hampshire; almost all of these lagoons are within the Solent and Isle of Wight Lagoons SAC. They have the most intensive and comprehensive history of ecological surveying of any coastal saline lagoons in the UK."