Saline Lagoon Manual - contents

A summary of the contents of the Saline lagoon guide is given below. This coastal habitat guide includes a summary of approaches to restoring the saline lagoon habitat and references to the more relevant pages in the Saline lagoon manual.

1. Introduction including: Aim of this guide; Basis of this guide; Audience for this guide.
2. Background including: What is a saline lagoon? Types of lagoon; UK history and distribution; Lagoonal biotopes;
   Lagoonal plants and animals; What is the conservation importance of saline lagoons?
3. Management of the lagoonal environment; Why manage saline lagoons? Management priorities and objectives; Management and the lagoon habitat; Optimal criteria for specialist, marine, lagoonal species; Management and potential impacts; Publicity and interpretation.
4. Lagoon creation Including: Why create lagoons? Creation - general considerations; Creation - Site specific considerations; Defining project aims; Pre-construction survey and information; Design; Construction; Follow-up.
5. Monitoring and survey including: The purpose of monitoring; Timing and frequency of monitoring; Size/morphology/separating barrier; Water levels; Salinity; Other water quality parameters; Substratum type and granulometry; Biota.
6. Other issues and information including: Health and safety considerations; Consents and licences; Costs; Sources of funding; Further work; Further contacts and sources of information.
7. Case studies.
8. Acknowledgements.
9. Appendix 1 The habitat preferences and UK status of lagoonal specialist species or
   species associated with saline lagoons A1-1.
10. Appendix 2 Saline lagoons Habitat Action Plan and associated species statements A2-1.
11. Appendix 3 Monitoring and survey information A3-1; Appendix 3a. Survey protocol and methodology for saline lagoons in England: minimum requirements and good practice A3-2; Appendix 3b. Application Of The Semi-Quantitative "SACFOR" Scale To Saline Lagoons A3-5; Appendix 3c. The monitoring of prey biomass availability for breeding avocets, passage waders and wintering wildfowl A3-7.
12. Appendix 4 Countryside stewardship intertidal habitats option A4-1; Appendix 4a. Specification for the preparation of an inter-tidal habitat creation and management plan A4-2; Appendix 4b. Guidance notes for applicants for the inter-tidal habitat creation and management plan agreement A4-11
13. References and bibliography R-1.