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词条 Red Moor (nature reserve)
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  1. Geography

  2. History

  3. Flora and fauna

  4. References

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|name= Red Moor
|image=
|image_caption= The ponds to the north of Red Moor SSSI, created from old tin mining pits
|aos= Cornwall
|interest= Biological
|gridref={{gbmappingsmall|SX072613}}
|coordinates = {{coord|50.4194|-4.7151|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
|displaymap= United Kingdom Cornwall (mainland)#UK England
|area={{convert|89.1|ha|km2 sqmi|sigfig=4}}
|notifydate={{Start date|1979}}
|enref=1004266
}}

Red Moor is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, near Lanlivery in mid Cornwall, England, UK.

Geography

The {{convert|89|ha|acre|adj=on}} SSSI, notified in 1979, is located mainly within Lanlivery civil parish, {{convert|2|mi|km}} north-west of the town of Lostwithiel. The similarly named hamlet of Redmoor is directly east of the reserve.[1][2]

The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust/Cornwall Trust for Nature.[3]

History

The river coursing out of the north of the site, a tributary of the River Par, was found to flow through tin-bearing gravels by the early mediaeval period.[4] This part of Red Moor was mined for loose tin until the end of the 19th century[5] and the oxidised metal is thought to give the moor its descriptive name.[4]

This SSSI used to belong to the Red Moor–Breney Common SSSI, the two sites having split in the 1986 revision where both sites were expanded.[5] It is adjacent to Helman Tor nature reserve.

Flora and fauna

There are two main habitat types within the site; the dry dwarf-shrub heath to the north and wetter marshy grassland, wetland heath and bog-land in the low-lying basin to the south.[5] The bog contains a variety of Sphagnum peat mosses - that disperse their spores from June to August[3] - bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), and marsh cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris). Other flora on the site include the climbing corydalis (Ceratocapnos claviculata) and the royal fern (Osmunda regalis).[5]

On the site can be found 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly, which include the scarce blue-tailed damselfly, a nationally rare species. Aquatic beetles are also present on the moor, the very scarce Hydrochus nitidicollis being one, as well as 2 uncommon spiders.[5]

Birds recorded on the site include the willow tit, tree pipit, European nightjar and the Eurasian sparrowhawk.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Red Moor map|url=http://www.natureonthemap.naturalengland.org.uk/map.aspx?map=sssi&feature=1004266,sssi,HYPERLINK,LABEL|publisher=Natural England|accessdate=15 November 2011}}
2. ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Helman Tor Nature Reserve (including Breney Common and Red Moor Memorial Nature Reserve)|url=http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature_reserves/where_to_find_the_nature_reserves_1/helman_tor_breney_common_red_moor|publisher=Cornwall Wildlife Trust|accessdate=14 November 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405034241/http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature_reserves/where_to_find_the_nature_reserves_1/helman_tor_breney_common_red_moor|archivedate=5 April 2013|df=}}
4. ^{{cite journal|last=Mercer|first=R. J.|title=Excavation of a Neolithic Enclosure at Helman Tor, Lanlivery, Cornwall|year=1986|url=http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/archaeology/publications/documents/ProjPaper4Mercer.pdf|accessdate=14 November 2011|page=3|publisher=University of Edinburgh: Dept. of Archaeology|format=pdf|issn=0266-1799|oclc=499357591|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415121721/http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/archaeology/publications/documents/ProjPaper4Mercer.pdf|archivedate=15 April 2012|df=}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Red Moor|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004266.pdf|publisher=Natural England|accessdate=14 November 2011|year=1986}}
{{Cornwall}}{{SSSIs Cornwall biological}}

3 : Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust|Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall|Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1979

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