Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats: (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide and Case Studies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats presents monitoring as an integral component of responsible conservation management and as a catalyst for decision making. The early sections of the book cover key areas in the development of a monitoring project, including:

- The roles of survey and surveillance
- Incorporating knowledge from existing research
- Identifying the conservation priority on sites
- Minimising observer error
- Identifying site-specific condition indicators for habitats
- Collecting monitoring data.

The later sections of the book comprise a series of case studies covering a wide range of habitats and species. These case studies focus mostly, though not exclusively, on sites that form part of the Natura 2000 series in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherland
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402037573
• Artikelnr.: 37341901

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction to Conservation Monitoring.- Monitoring in Cultural Habitats.- The Relationship Between Monitoring and Management.- Traditional Approaches to Data Collection.- The Roles of Survey.- Surveillance.- Strategic Sampling.- Developing Projects for Monitoring Habitats.- Developing a Habitat Monitoring Project.- Identifying the Conservation Priority.- Incorporating Knowledge from Research.- Developing a Conservation Strategy.- Minimising Observer Error.- Identifying Site-Specific Condition Indicators for Habitats.- Where to Focus the Monitoring Effort.- Collecting the Monitoring Data.- The Supporting Roles of On-Site Photography.- Integrating Data in Geographical Information Systems.- The Case Studies.- The Monitoring Case Studies.- Monitoring Coastal Heaths at St David’s.- Monitoring Arable Weeds at Newton Farm.- Monitoring Neutral Grassland at Somerton Farm.- Monitoring the Brown Bear Ursus Arctos in Västerbotten County.- Monitoring the Wolverine Gulo Gulo in Västerbotten County.- Monitoring the Greater Mouse-Eared Bat Myotis Myotis on a Landscape Scale.- Monitoring Choughs Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax on the Castlemartin Peninsula.- Narrow-Mouthed Whorl Snail Vertigo Angustior at Whiteford Burrows.- Monitoring The Heath Fritillary Mellicta Athalia in Thornden and West Blean Woods.- Woodland Monitoring.- Woodland Management.- Issues Specific to Monitoring Broad-Leaved Woodland.- Monitoring Issues Specific to Western Taïga Forests.- Beech Fagus Sylatica Forests at Biskopstorp.- Using Information from Remote Images.- Using Earth Observation to Monitor Habitats.- Planning a Remote Sensing Project.- Remote Sensing of Dune Habitats at Kenfig NNR.- Remote Sensing of Fen Vegetation at Cors Crymlyn NNR.- Coastal Lagoons in Sweden and Finland.- Looking to the Future.-The Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead.