• Chalk heath is a rare habitat, in the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome, formed of a paradoxical mixture of shallow-rooted calcifuge...
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    North Downs (category Chalk landforms)
    Downs support several important habitats including chalk grassland, scrub, woodland and chalk heath. Chalk grassland is found on the steep south-facing scarp...
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    Australia, with a "dieback"-infested valley in the mid-ground Bolster heath Chalk heath Garrigue Maquis shrubland Matorral Scrubland Polunin, Oleg; Walters...
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    shell sand (pulverised sea shells). Alvar Chalk heath Edaphic Gypcrust Gypsum flora of Nova Scotia Rendzina Chalk Grassland HAP Archived 2009-01-07 at the...
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    kept on the heath. Betchworth Quarry was used by the British Army in early 1944, to test the firing capabilities of Churchill tanks. The chalk which comprises...
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    The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about 260 sq mi (670 km2) across the south-eastern...
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    Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in southern England covering 300 square miles (780 km2). It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern...
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    Grade I. This site has two nationally uncommon habitats, chalk heath and chalk grassland. Chalk heath formerly covered most of the site but scrub took over...
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    Hep Verlag. p. 122. 1938 USDA soil taxonomy Alvar Calcareous grassland Chalk heath Downland Edaphic FAO soil classification Gypcrust Gypsum flora of Nova...
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    most of Newmarket Racecourse. Most of this site is chalk grassland, and it has areas of chalk heath, a rare habitat in Britain. There is a rich variety...
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