A team from the Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve have now reinstalled temporary limpet fences on The Flats. These small mesh fences are a demonstration to show the importance of the herbivorous limpet in their control of algae through grazing. The fences restrict the limpets and therefore allow colonisation of several algal species which will be monitored fortnightly through fixed-point photography.
Through the use of these fences visitors appreciate the role of the limpet and will hopefully think again before removing these long lived gastropods.
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