TEP were commissioned by Sefton Council and English Nature to undertake a National Vegetation Classification (NVC) survey of the internationally important sand dune habitat along the Sefton Coast in Merseyside. It involved a detailed survey identifying and mapping vegetation communities over an area of 2000 hectares.
An interactive GIS package was utilised which allowed the present condition of the dunes to be compared with a previous survey from 1988. GPS was used to map boundaries of the dune vegetation types and to record vegetation samples and other data.