“…The Medmerry Managed Realignment Site (Figure 1) is located within the Solent, southern UK, on the western side of the Manhood Peninsula (Figure 1, insert). Previously, the area 124 had been a brackish lagoon (Krawiec, 2017) behind a shingle barrier beach, which had drained through Pagham Harbour on the eastern side of the peninsula. However, this area was separated from Pagham Harbour and reclaimed through the construction of an embankment, and subsequently drained, between 1805 and 1809 (Bone, 1996).…”