Managing Habitats for Conservation [Paperback]

The essential habitat by habitat guide to conservation management for practitioners of ecology and land management.Providing a comprehensive habitat-by-habitat guide to conservation management based on scientific principles as well as practical experience, this volume directs the reader through options and solutions. It highlights potential problems and provides examples of past habitat management.Providing a comprehensive habitat-by-habitat guide to conservation management based on scientific principles as well as practical experience, this volume directs the reader through options and solutions. It highlights potential problems and provides examples of past habitat management.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.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 moorlós