An internationally important habitat, Britain's limestone pavements are predominantly found in the northern English counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, as well as in North Wales and ...

Limestone pavements, and the unique plants and wildlife they provide a habitat for, are under threat in north-west England, a new study has found. Lancaster University has repeated a study ...

Limestone pavements were formed more than 300 million years ago in the Dinantian period ... In research just published in Functional Ecology, I revisited and surveyed the same sites as the 1970s study ...

Erosion through weathering has created the surface features of scars, scree and limestone pavement. Limestone is soluble in acidic rainwater. It is a permeable rock, meaning water can pass through it.