Managing Habitats for Conservation / Edition 1

by William J. Sutherland, David A. Hill

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521447768
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/26/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	7.48(w) x 9.72(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and principles of ecological management W. Sutherland; 2. Site management planning G. Hirons, G. Thomas and B. Goldsmith; 3. Access J. Vickery; 4. Coasts and estuaries C. Frid and P. Evans; 5. Rivers, canals and dykes N. Holmes and R. Hanbury; 6. Waterbodies J. Andrew; 7. Reedbeds, bogs and fens N. Burgess, D. Ward, R. Hobbs and D. Bellamy; 8. Grasslands M. Ausden and J. Treweek; 9. Farmland D. Hill, J. Andrews, N. Sotherton and J. Hawkins; 10. Lowland heaths P. Dolman and R. Land; 11. Upland moors and heaths D.Thompson, A. Macdonald and P. Hudson; 12. Woodlands G. Peterken and R. Fuller; 13. Urban areas C. Baines; Appendix; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'This book should be on every land-manager's bookshelf (and mostly off it) …' Franklyn Perring, British Birds

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