Michael Shrubb

Birds, Scythes and Combines

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2003, this book accounts the impact of changes in farming methods on the bird populations of British farmland over the past 250 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814638
• ISBN-10: 0521814634
• Artikelnr.: 21440460

Autorenporträt

Michael Shrubb is a retired farmer with a lifelong interest in birds which he has been studying since the late 1950s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. The agricultural background
2. The farmland birds
3. Arable farming systems: high farming and before
4. Enclosure
5. Some thoughts on hedges
6. Drainage
7. Weeds, weeding and pesticides
8. Arable farming systems: after 1945
9. Grassland and stock
10. Winter food resources
11. Labour, machines and buildings
12. Exploitation
13. Conclusions
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography and references
Index.