Dormice in unusual habitats

- Client:

Kent Mammal Group

- Project Duration:

Mon 04 Jan 2010 - ongoing

During 2010 and 2011 staff from Bramley Associates will be monitoring areas of 'unusual habitat' for dormice in Kent.

It has become widely realised that dormice are not limited in their distribution to the traditional habitats of hazel coppice and hedgelines. In Kent in the last few years they have been recorded in blackthorn scrub, bramble, reed, gorse and tall grasslands.

This project is the first in SE England to explore the link between dormouse distribution and areas which perhaps until recently would have been classed as non-typical habitats.