Upland Habitats
eBook - ePub

Upland Habitats

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Upland Habitats

About this book

Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bogs, montane and sub-montane forests. The book examines the unique characteristics of uplands and the ecological processes and historical events that have shaped them since the end of the last glaciaton. Among the key conservation and management issues explored in are:
* modern agricultural practices and economics
* habitat degradation through overgrazing
* commercial forest plantations
* the persecution of wildlife
* recreation in the uplands
* the funding of upland farming.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. PLATES
  5. FIGURES
  6. TABLES
  7. SPECIES BOXES
  8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  9. SERIES INTRODUCTION
  10. 1: INTRODUCTION
  11. 2: THE ECOLOGY OF UPLAND HABITATS
  12. 3: MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
  13. 4: CASE STUDIES
  14. 5: PRACTICAL WORK
  15. GLOSSARY
  16. SPECIES LIST
  17. FURTHER READING
  18. REFERENCES

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