Urban Habitats

by Wheater,C. Philip

• ISBN13: 9780415162647
• ISBN10: 0415162645
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Urban Habitatspresents an illustrated and practical guide to the wide range of British urban habitats and the flora and fauna which live within them, and examines the most important conservation and management issues presently being faced by the British government

Author Biography

C. Philip Wheater is Principal Lecturer in Ecology, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University

Table of Contents

List of plates	vii
List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of species boxes	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Series introduction	xii
Introduction	1	(12)
Impacts of physical factors	4	(2)
Ecological aspects	6	(4)
Colonisation and establishment	6	(1)
Adaptations and characteristics	7	(3)
Geographical influences	10	(3)
The Ecology of Urban Habitats	13	(67)
Terrestrial urban habitats	13	(50)
Woods, trees and parklands	13	(6)
Parks, gardens and allotments	19	(9)
Playing fields, golf courses and other grasslands	28	(5)
Demolition sites	33	(5)
Industrial wasteland, spoil heaps, quarries and mines	38	(4)
Refuse tips	42	(4)
Road verges and railways	46	(5)
Walls, buildings and paved areas	51	(11)
Churchyards and cemeteries	62	(1)
Aquatic urban habitats	63	(17)
Marshes and reedbeds	64	(2)
Streams, rivers and canals	66	(2)
Ponds, lakes and reservoirs	68	(4)
Sand and gravel pits	72	(1)
Sewage works	73	(1)
Coastal features	74	(6)
Management and Conservation	80	(31)
Pollution	80	(8)
Heavy metals and woodlands	80	(2)
Lichens and sulphur dioxide pollution	82	(3)
Freshwaters and pollution	85	(3)
Noxious species	88	(11)
Noxious plants	88	(6)
Noxious animals	94	(1)
Managing noxious species	94	(5)
Habitat management	99	(12)
Ecological guidelines	99	(4)
Reclamation and restoration of derelict land	103	(3)
Strategies for nature conservation	106	(2)
Urban wildlife and city people	108	(3)
Case Studies	111	(19)
Reclaiming limestone quarry faces in Derbyshire	111	(3)
Ecological parks in London	114	(3)
Habitat initiatives in Merseyside	117	(4)
Landlife	117	(1)
Sutton Mill Dam	118	(2)
Mersey Community Forest	120	(1)
The Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow	121	(4)
A stormwater retention basin in the West Midlands	125	(2)
Coastal habitats in Cardiff	127	(3)
Practical Work	130	(17)
Experimental design	130	(1)
Health and safety	131	(1)
Distribution of pavement plants	132	(1)
Flora of urban wasteland	133	(3)
Distribution of tar-spot fungus on sycamore trees	136	(2)
Colonisation of stones by invertebrate animals	138	(2)
Distribution of grey squirrel dreys	140	(4)
Vigilance behaviour in mallards	144	(3)
Glossary	147	(3)
Species List	150	(13)
Further Reading	163	(3)
References	166	(11)
Subject index	177	(4)
Species index	181