Habitat Creation and Repair

by Gilbert, Oliver L.; Anderson, Penny

• ISBN13: 9780198549666
• ISBN10: 0198549660
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

With increasing public awareness of environmental issues, landscape managers and developers are being required to creatic substantial areas of naturalistic planting, particularly in urban areas, and to restore habitats degraded by building, development, or overuse. This book provides thedefinitive guide to habitat creation and repair, ranging from ethics, theory, and principles to the practical detail of designing habitats for wildlife. The authors, who have been working and teaching in the field for many years, draw on a wealth of practical experience - as well as an in-depthknowledge of the existing widely scattered literature - to provide an authoritative and accessible account of this rapidly developing subject. From coastal and freshwater ecosystems to mountains, forest, and grasslands, the book spans all of the major types of habitat to be found in the UK. OliverGilbert and Penny Anderson give advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then cover all steps from site survey through to the final design and actual realization of the scheme. For each habitat, the authors describe the options, problems, and solutions most likelyto be encountered, and give examples of good and bad habitat creation in practice drawn from the UK and other countries. Habitat Creation and Repair is the first comprehensive guide to habitat creation to be published for several years. It will be a key text for advanced undergraduate andpostgraduate courses in ecology, landscape architecture, resource management, and environmental science.With habitat conservation, creation, and repair increasingly a priority amongst planners, developers, and policy-makers, this book will also be welcomed by professional ecologists, environmentalconsultants, resource managers, and landscape architects.

Author Biography

Oliver L. Gilbert is Reader in Landscape, The University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Designing new habitats

Promoting natural succession

Grasslands

Woodland, scrub, and hedgerows

Heath and moor

Montane and submontane habitats

The coast

Farmland

Wetlands

Getting it right

References

Glossary

Index

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