wild jersey

Wild Jersey brings together student research and the rich biodiversity of Jersey, Channel Islands to capture the very best of our beautiful island!!

Study sites include St Catherine’s Wood, Green Island, Jersey’s West Coast and Wetlands and Sorel Point, North Coast.

St Catherine’s Wood

Accompanied by Dr Thomas Hesselberg, students conduct a transect along a stream (100 metres) and in a nearby meadow (50 metres) to better understand the characteristics of spider webs and habitats by kick sampling invertebrates present in the stream and assessing which bird species were present based on their song. 

The hope is that this transect can be repeated in years to come to generate a long-term dataset. 

Green Island

Working across the beautiful south coast, students headed out to Green Island Beach in the southeast to undertake intertidal surveying. Different communities of algae were sampled by laying out a 50-metre transect. At five points along each transect (picked with a random number generator), a quadrat was laid to out to see how abundant each species was at that point. These numbers can be used to examine the makeup of communities of algae in each layer.