Guide to Floodplain Meadows
Author | : David J. G. Gowing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Floodplain plants |
ISBN | : 9781851538133 |
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Author | : David J. G. Gowing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Floodplain plants |
ISBN | : 9781851538133 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781473020665 |
Author | : Dirk Hilbers |
Publisher | : Crossbill Guides Foundation |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2008-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9050112765 |
Author | : Vladimir Dinets |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0544373278 |
A guide to finding and observing 420 species of North American mammals, including the art of mammal watching, the best locations, and a species-finding guide.
Author | : Ülle Jõgar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Floodplains |
ISBN | : 9789949118465 |
Author | : George Peterken |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 147295470X |
The second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history. Meadows provide one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the flower-rich hay meadows that have inspired writers and artists for hundreds of years have almost disappeared from our countryside. In this exceptional work, George Peterken, one of our most respected ecologists, brings together years of research and discovery from his travels across Britain and Europe, as well as an understanding borne out of caring for his own meadows, to produce a book that will put this often misunderstood habitat back in the public's eye. Filled with beautiful images of meadows and their denizens, this is a book everyone with an interest in this iconic habitat will want to own.
Author | : Phil Benstead |
Publisher | : A & C Black |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
In the UK there are some 1.5 million hectars of low-lying land, much of which has the potential to be wet grassland. Most has been drained and improved for agriculture - only 109,500 hectares support breeding waders. There are 32 RDB/candidate RDB species of birds which depend or partly depend on lowland wet grassland. In addition, some 500 of the 1500 British vascular plant species and large numbers of invertibrate may be found in this habitat.
Author | : George Heritage |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-10-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1118488024 |
Temperate rivers are influenced by many factors including geology, climate, soils, sediment type, flow, as well as human activity. The complex interactions of the non-anthropogenic controlling factors have led to a wonderful diversity of river type throughout the British Isles. Sadly, almost all rivers in the UK have suffered significant and long-lasting modification by unsympathetic management, that has all but destroyed this variety, creating watercourses that are simplified conduits for water and sediment, designed primarily to drain the land and reduce flood risk. This volume aims to help reverse this, illustrating using over 200 images and descriptions, this variety of rivers in Britain, highlighting the many forms that temperate river systems take and providing an accessible summary of the underlying river science knowledge base. A Field Guide to British Rivers covers the full range of upland and lowland channel types and describes the full variety of substrate conditions from bedrock through boulder, cobble and gravel, to silt dominated systems. The authors describe examples gathered from their extensive research and practical experience working with rivers throughout mainland Britain and set those examples in their wider landscape context to exemplify the natural functioning of temperate river types. This book offers a practical and contextualised guide to contribute to efforts towards the sympathetic and sustainable restoration and re-naturalisation of degraded channels in the UK. Offering a unique viewpoint of both the underpinning science and the practicalities of river management, A Field Guide to British Rivers is an essential a stand-alone guide for anyone involved in river restoration and management as well as for those simply interested in rivers in general. Written as a field guide to demonstrate practical examples of river types, and to highlight the pressures they experience and their often-parlous condition, this book is intended to better inform both river management approaches and the policy necessary to achieve this. Fundamentally, the authors seek to demonstrate how the hydrological, geomorphological, and ecological functions of rivers and their catchments are inexorably intertwined, and together how they generate and maintain rivers as dynamic entities.
Author | : James McGinlay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tomasz Okruszko |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1482288478 |
Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation. Modelling wetland components and processes reveals the nature of wetland systems and helps to predict the effects of environmental change. The main goal of much current research is the construction of a vigorous and sp