Managing Habitats for ConservationWilliam J. Sutherland, David Arnold Hill Cambridge University Press, 1995 M05 26 - 399 pages As it becomes ever more expensive to purchase land for conservation purposes, it is becoming increasingly important both to manage existing sites properly and to create new habitats. This comprehensive volume provides a pragmatic, habitat-by-habitat guide to conservation management, in which the prescriptions and methods are based on sound science coupled with practical experience. For each habitat, the book guides the reader through the options and solutions, highlights potential problems, and gives good and bad examples of habitat management in the past. This will be required reading for all practicing ecologists, land managers, wardens, landscape architects and conservationists, and will provide a valuable reference for students of ecology, conservation and environmental science. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid bogs animals areas bank birds blanket bogs Bracken Breckland breeding Britain British broadleaved burning butterflies Calluna canals cattle colonise conifer Conservation Headlands coppice Countryside Commission create crop cutting damage density develop disturbance ditches diversity drainage dredging dykes Ecology effects emergent plants English Nature example farm fauna feeding fertilisers flora grass grassland ground growth heath heather heathland hedge herbicide high forest important increase insects invertebrates lagoons land levels litter lowland maintain mammals management plan margins marsh meadows monitoring moorland mowing Nature Conservancy Council nature conservation nesting nutrients ombrotrophic particularly patches peat plant communities plant species populations Purple Moor-grass Red Grouse reduce reed reedbed regeneration regime removed reserves river rotation RSPB scrub seed sheep soil structure suitable summer sward trees upland urban vegetation waders Warbler waterbodies Wavy Hair-grass weeds wetland wildfowl wildlife winter wood-pasture woodland woods