3 Sources of further information
Two main sources of further information about floodplain meadows are:
More specific further information is listed by the course’s sessions in what follows.
1 Biodiversity
- Vegetation: Floodplain meadow species and communities
- Map showing floodplain meadows in the UK
- Biodiversity of floodplain meadows
- Curlew management guidelines
2 Climate change
Floodplain Meadows Partnership research:
- Soils and carbon
- Ecosystem services and natural capital of floodplain meadows
- Natural capital of floodplains
- Assessment of floodplain meadows in Worcestershire and their potential to store soil carbon. September 2023
The New Scientist’s Meadows could be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change.
The Wildlife Trust’s Natural solutions to climate change: grassland.
3 Flood risk
Floodplain Meadows Partnership research on Ecohydrology
Watch Professor David Gowing talk through a soil profile and explain what it tells us about soil water levels: Soils of Floodplain Meadows.
4 Food security
5 Connection to nature
Springtime renewal: Transform eco-anxiety into eco-action by following our flip book Springwatch Mindful Moments.
Free OpenLearn course: Introducing climate psychology: facing the climate crisis.
6 Water quality
- Floodplain nutrients
- Depleting soil nutrients through frequency and timing of hay cutting on floodplain meadows for habitat restoration and nutrient neutrality
- The combined effect of waterlogging, extractable P and soil pH on α-diversity: a case study on mesotrophic grasslands in the UK
- Available soil phosphorus in semi-natural grasslands: assessment methods and community tolerances