A MINE of information is available to researchers on a new website launched by Dartmoor National Park.
The site contains a chronological list of completed research projects from 1979 to 2002, with contacts to scientists and conservation organisations, plus research priorities identified in the Dartmoor Biodiversity Action Plan.
It is hoped the information will help students, scientists and naturalists to find out studies already completed on the moor and areas where more could be done.
Miriam Glendell, assistant ecologist with DNPA, said: ?From habitat management, breeding birds, Dartmoor ponies, butterflies, lichens, mosses and ferns, bats and beetles, here is a body of knowledge that is helping to prioritise for action and inform biodiversity management decisions.?
Anyone interested in the site can go to http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk">www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk clicking on A-Z then Dartmoor Biodiversity Research Group.