Editing Wareham Forest (section)

==Ecosystem==
A track that passes through the site comprises part of the 'Wareham Forest Way', a walk that leads from Wareham to [[Sturminster Marshall]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/396516 |title=Wareham Forest Way |author=Discover Purbeck Information Centre |date=23 May 2012 |publisher=dorsetforyou.com |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> There is also a route for cyclists called the Sika Cycle Trail.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/englanddorsetdorsetwoodlandswarehamforestsikatrailsikacycletrail| year=|author=Forestry Commission| title=Sika Cycle Trail|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> 
Situated to the east of the forest is Morden Bog National Nature Reserve.<ref name="dorsetforyou">{{cite web| url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/media.jsp?mediaid=147929&filetype=pdf| year=|author=Purbeck District Council| title=Wareham Forest Way|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> 
''[[Calluna]]'' (or heather) and grasses such as ''[[Molinia caerulea]]'' (or purple moor grass) grow readily at Wareham Forest, give [[grazing]] fodder to a population of sika.<ref name=Putman1986>{{cite book|last=Putman|first=Rory|title=Grazing in Temperate Ecosystems: Large Herbivores and the Ecology of the New Forest|page=123|year=1986|isbn=070994036X}}</ref> 
The nationally scarce Dartford warbler and the [[nightjar]] has been observed around here, and [[sand lizards]] may also be spotted.<ref name="dorsetforyou" /> The iconic [[fly agaric]] (''Amanita muscaria''), [[hallucinogenic]] [[toadstool]], has been recorded within the forest.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.natureofdorset.co.uk/sites/wareham-forest-gore-heath| year=|author=Peter Orchard| work=The Nature of Dorset|title=Wareham Forest (Gore Heath)|accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref> In 2006 the [[Journal of Zoology]] published the results of a nine-year study that looked into the breeding frequency of the site's smooth snakes (''[[Coronella austriaca]]'').<ref>{{cite journal|first=C. J. |last=Reading|year=2004|journal=Journal of Zoology|volume=264| issue= 1| pages=61–67|doi= 10.1017/S0952836904005515|title=The influence of body condition and prey availability on female breeding success in the smooth snake (Coronella austriaca Laurenti)}}</ref>