Limestone pavements are made up of large slabs of rock called clints, interspersed with cracks called grikes that can be a few metres deep. Living in these grikes is a secret world of plant life, ...

Limestone pavements are made up of large slabs of rock called clints, interspersed with cracks called grikes that can be a few meters deep. Living in these grikes is a secret world of plant life ...

Her study, "Large changes in vegetation composition seen over the last 50 years in British limestone pavements" which is published in Functional Ecology, recorded 313 plant species across UK ...

Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat for, are under threat in north-west England, a new study has found. Lancaster University has repeated a study ...

Gait Barrows national nature reserve is considered to be one of Britain's most important limestone landscapes [BBC] Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat ...

Limestone Pavements are bare limestone rock surfaces composed of slabs of rock (clints), separated by variable-width vertical cracks (grikes) . These grikes have developed by weathering and ...