Key Reading

The selected list of references most relevant to restoring coastal vegetated shingle:

1. Carter, R.W.G., 1988. Coastal Environments. London: Academic Press.
2. Doody, J.P., 2001. Coastal Conservation and Management: an Ecological Perspective, Kluwer, Academic Publishers, Boston, USA, 308 pages.
3. Doody, J.P., 2001. Perspective: the importance of conserving coastal shingle in Europe. In: Ecology & Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle, eds. J.R. Packham, R.E. Randall, R.S.K. Barnes & A. Neal, Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, 421-440.
4. Ferry, B.W., Waters, S.J.P. & Jury, S.L., eds. 1989. Dungeness: the Ecology of a Shingle Beach. Published as special issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 101, by Academic Press, London.
5. Fuller, R.M. & Randall R E, 1988. The Orford Shingles, Suffolk, UK - classic conflicts in coastline management. Biological Conservation, 46: 95-114.
6. Fuller, R.M., 1987. Vegetation establishment on shingle beaches. Journal of Ecology, 75: 1077-1089.
7. Oliver, F.W., 1912. The shingle beach as a plant habitat. New Phytologist, 11: 73-99,
8. Packham, J.R., Randall, R.E., Barnes R.S.K. & Neal A., 2001 Ecology and Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle. Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire.
9. Pye, K., 2001. The nature of geomorphology of coastal shingle. In: Ecology & Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle, eds. J.R. Packham, R.E. Randall, R.S.K. Barnes & A. Neal, Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, 2-22.
10. Randall, R.E. & Fuller, R.M., 2001 The Orford Shingles, Suffolk, UK: Evolving Solutions in Coastline Management; In: Ecology & Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle, eds. J.R. Packham, R.E. Randall, R.S.K. Barnes & A. Neal, Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, 242-260.
11. Randall, R.E. & Sneddon, P., 2001. Initiation, development and classification of vegetation on British shingle beaches: a model for conservation management. In: Ecology & Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle, eds. J.R. Packham, R.E. Randall, R.S.K. Barnes & A. Neal, Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, 202-223.
12. Randall, R.E., 1989. Geographical variation in British shingle vegetation. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 101: 3-18.
13. Scott, G.A.M., 1963. The ecology of shingle beach plants. Journal of Ecology, 51: 517-527.
14. Scott, G.A.M., 1965. The shingle vegetation at Dungeness. Journal of Ecology, 53: 21-31.
15. Shardlow, M., 2001. A review of the conservation importance of shingle habitats for invertebrates in the United Kingdom. In: Ecology & Geomorphology of Coastal Shingle, eds. J.R. Packham, R.E. Randall, R.S.K. Barnes & A. Neal, Westbury Academic & Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, 355-376.
16. Sneddon, P. & Randall, R.E., 1993a. Coastal vegetation shingle structures of Great Britain: Main Report. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
17. Sneddon, P. & Randall, R.E., 1993b. Vegetated shingle structures survey of Great Britain: Appendix 1 - Wales. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
18. Sneddon, P. & Randall, R.E., 1994a. Vegetated shingle structures survey of Great Britain: Appendix 2 - Scotland. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
19. Sneddon, P. & Randall, R.E., 1994b. Vegetated shingle structures survey of Great Britain: Appendix 3 - England. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.

Note: the Main Report includes a detailed bibliography.