Europa Foreshore- surveying coastal vegetation communities

Placement focus with the MSC environmental science and climate change programme

About this Placement

In collaboration with local botanist Leslie Linares, students conduct comprehensive vegetation surveys at Europa Foreshore. Objective: to quantify and characterise the transitional shifts in plant communities along defined coastal-inland transects.

Skills and Knowledge

  • Vegetation sampling
  • Shifting plant communities
  • Transects
  • Plant species Identification

Stakeholders

  • Gibraltar Orthinological & Natural History Society
  • University of Gibraltar