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Features almost 300 colour photographs and brings together more
than 60 years of research by a leading voice in British woodland
ecology. Trees define woodland. They provide a complex,
multi-layered habitat for a great range of wildlife, but they are
also wildlife themselves, reacting to their circumstances and each
other. Woodlands are important to people, supplying timber, food
and fuel, accumulating carbon, and offering places of refuge and
refreshment. But they are also under threat: some stand in the way
of 'progress', and all are becoming increasingly vulnerable to
disease and climate change. In Trees and Woodlands, George Peterken
brings together decades of scientific research, while also
incorporating his personal experiences, to explore the ecology,
nature conservation and wider cultural value of our native trees
and shrubs, and the various ways they have combined as woodland.
Peterken accepts that all woodlands have been shaped by people as
well as nature, and he describes the long history of use and
management and how this has influenced woodland wildlife. Woodlands
have also contributed to our art, beliefs and social attitudes, and
this too is examined. He concludes by asking, what next for
Britain's trees and woodlands? He advocates woods being managed and
their timber and small wood being put to good use, but recognises
that this is all part of a larger question: the future of
ourselves. Containing nearly 300 photographs, and interspersed with
box texts describing the history and ecology of representative
woods across Britain, this is a commentary on trees, woodlands and
our relationship with them from one of our most highly regarded
forest ecologists.
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Meadows (Hardcover)
George Peterken
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R1,133
R1,038
Discovery Miles 10 380
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Meadows, the second volume of a major new series of books on
British natural history, provides 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.
In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire
and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry
Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops
naturally. Since then, in a unique long-term study, individual
trees and shrubs have been recorded at intervals, accumulating a
detailed record of more than 20,000 individual beech, sessile oak,
ash, wych elm, small-leaved lime, large-leaved lime, birch, hazel,
yew and other species. In the seven decades since the study
started, the wood has changed; trees grew, died and regenerated,
and drought, disease and other events shaped its destiny. Each tree
and shrub species reacted in its own way to changes in the wood as
a whole and to changes in the fortunes of its neighbours.
Meanwhile, the wild fauna, flora and fungi also responded, leaving
the wood richer in some groups but poorer in others. In this
landmark book, beautifully illustrated throughout, George Peterken
and Edward Mountford, summarise the ongoing results of the Lady
Park Wood study, highlighting its unique place in nature
conservation and its significance to ecology in general. It also
builds on experience at Lady Park Wood and elsewhere to discuss in
particular: the role and maintenance of long-term ecological
studies; the concept and form of natural woodland; the role of
minimum-intervention policies in woodland nature conservation;
near-to-nature forestry; and the desirability and practicalities of
re-wilding woodlands.
In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire
and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry
Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops
naturally. Since then, in a unique long-term study, individual
trees and shrubs have been recorded at intervals, accumulating a
detailed record of more than 20,000 individual beech, sessile oak,
ash, wych elm, small-leaved lime, large-leaved lime, birch, hazel,
yew and other species. In the seven decades since the study
started, the wood has changed; trees grew, died and regenerated,
and drought, disease and other events shaped its destiny. Each tree
and shrub species reacted in its own way to changes in the wood as
a whole and to changes in the fortunes of its neighbours.
Meanwhile, the wild fauna, flora and fungi also responded, leaving
the wood richer in some groups but poorer in others. In this
landmark book, beautifully illustrated throughout, George Peterken
and Edward Mountford, summarise the ongoing results of the Lady
Park Wood study, highlighting its unique place in nature
conservation and its significance to ecology in general. It also
builds on experience at Lady Park Wood and elsewhere to discuss in
particular: the role and maintenance of long-term ecological
studies; the concept and form of natural woodland; the role of
minimum-intervention policies in woodland nature conservation;
near-to-nature forestry; and the desirability and practicalities of
re-wilding woodlands.
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