Wildlife Conservation on Farmland

Two Volume Set
Herausgeber: Macdonald, David W; Feber, Ruth E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative two-volume book highlights and examines the most important challenges facing farmers, conservationists, and policy makers, using examples of real-life, linked studies from a farmed landscape, which bridge the divide between the theory and practice of wildlife conservation on farmland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 197mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1735g
• ISBN-13: 9780199646838
• ISBN-10: 019964683X
• Artikelnr.: 42877484

Autorenporträt

David W. Macdonald, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford;Ruth E. Feber, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

* Volume 1: Managing for nature on lowland farms
* 1: David W. Macdonald, Eva M. Raebel and Ruth E. Feber: Farming and
wildlife: a perspective on a shared future
* 2: Helen Smith, Ruth E. Feber and David W. Macdonald: From weed
reservoir to wildlife resource: redefining arable field margins
* 3: Ruth E. Feber, Paul J. Johnson, Fran H. Tattersall, Will Manley,
Barbara Hart, Helen Smith and David W. Macdonald: How can field
margin management contribute to invertebrate biodiversity?
* 4: David W. Macdonald, Lauren A. Harrington, Merryl Gelling, Fran H.
Tattersall and Tom Tew: Small mammals on lowland farmland
* 5: Jeremy D. Wilson and Richard B. Bradbury: Agri-environment schemes
and the future of farmland bird conservation
* 6: Ruth E. Feber, Paul J. Johnson, Dan E. Chamberlain, Leslie G.
Firbank, Robert J. Fuller, Barbara Hart, Will Manley, Fiona Mathews,
Lisa R. Norton, Martin Townsend and David W. Macdonald: Does organic
farming affect biodiversity?
* 7: Hanna L. Tuomisto, Ian D. Hodge, Philip Riordan and David W.
Macdonald: Farming for the future: optimising farming systems for
society and the environment
* 8: Thomas Merckx and David W. Macdonald: Landscape-scale conservation
of farmland moths
* 9: Danielle Linton, Lauren A. Harrington and David W. Macdonald:
Habitat use by vesper bats: disentangling local and landscape scale
effects within lowland farmland
* 10: Eva M. Raebel, David J. Thompson and David W. Macdonald: Local
and landscape scale management of Odonata
* 11: Rosalind F. Shaw, Alison E. Poole, Ruth E. Feber, Eva M. Raebel
and David W. Macdonald: Freshwaters and farming: impacts of land use
and management on the biodiversity of rivers and ditches
* 12: Christina D. Buesching, Eleanor M. Slade, Thomas Merckx and David
W. Macdonald: Local and landscape-scale impacts of wooded habitats
and their management on wildlife
* 13: Elina Rantanen, David W. Macdonald, Nick Sotherton and Francis
Buner: Improving reintroduction success of the Grey Partridge using
behavioural studies
* 14: Tom P. Moorhouse, Merryl Gelling and David W. Macdonald: Water
vole restoration in the Upper Thames
* 15: Tom Moorhouse, David W. Macdonald, Rob Strachan and Xavier
Lambin: What does conservation research do, when should it stop, and
what do we do then? Questions answered with water voles.
* 16: Christopher J. Sandom and David W. Macdonald: What next?
Rewilding as a radical future for the British countryside
* Volume 2: Conflict in the countryside
* 1: David W. Macdonald, Eva M. Raebel, Chris Newman and Ruth E. Feber:
War or Peace: farming and wildlife
* 2: David W. Macdonald, Patrick Doncaster, Malcolm Newdick, Heribert
Hofer, Fiona Mathews, Paul J. Johnson: Foxes in the landscape:
ecology and sociology
* 3: David W. Macdonald and Paul J. Johnson: Foxes in the landscape:
hunting, control and economics
* 4: David W. Macdonald, Chris Newman and Christina D. Buesching:
Badgers in the rural landscape: conservation paragon or farmland
pariah: lessons from the Wytham Badger Project
* 5: David W. Macdonald, Rosie Woodroffe and Philip Riordan: Badgers
and Bovine Tuberculosis: beyond perturbation to life cycle analysis
* 6: David W. Macdonald, Lauren A. Harrington, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Mike
D. Thom, Joanna Bagniewska: Biology, ecology and reproduction of
American mink Neovison vison on lowland farmland
* 7: Lauren A. Harrington and David W. Macdonald: Riparian mustelids in
the Upper Thames: a case of alien invasives versus native competitors
* 8: Tom P. Moorhouse and David W. Macdonald: Crayfish management in
the Upper Thames
* 9: Alan Larkman, Ruth E. Feber, Ian Newton and David W. Macdonald:
Population trends in large and small resident, seed-eating farmland
bird species in Britain since 1966
* 10: Eduardo Arraut, David W. Macdonald and Robert E. Kenward: In the
wake of buzzards: from modelling to conservation and management in a
changing landscape
* 11: David W. Macdonald, Manuel Berdoy and Joanne P. Webster: Brown
rats on farmland: ecological citizens or subsidised carpet-baggers?
* 12: Sandra E. Baker and David W. Macdonald: Moles on farmland: making
mountains out of molehills?
* 13: Sandra E. Baker and David W. Macdonald: Managing wildlife
humanely with learned food aversions
* 14: Philip Riordan, Paul Johnson, Eva Raebel, Ruth E. Feber and David
W. Macdonald: From science to practice: delivering conservation
across the landscape
* 15: Christina D. Buesching, Eleanor M. Slade, Chris Newman, Terhi
Riutta, Philip Riordan and David W. Macdonald: Many Hands Make Light
Work - But Do They? A Critical Evaluation of Citizen Science