Habitat Management for Invertebrates

A practical handbook

By (author) Peter Kirby

Paperback - £35.00

Publication date:

01 May 2013

Length of book:

150 pages

Publisher

Pelagic Publishing

Dimensions:

296x210mm
8x12"

ISBN-13: 9781907807510

A practical guide to the management of habitat for invertebrates.

Many invertebrates are highly specialised creatures with very precise habitat requirements. This means that they can be very sensitive indicators of environmental change. It also means that they can be lost from a site through small changes in management of their habitat. This book is a practical manual covering management for invertebrates: it provides guidelines to enable reserve managers and conservationists to take account of the vulnerable habitat features so important to invertebrates.

The introduction gives an overview of British invertebrate species, site size and vegetation structure, management need of invertebrates and a summary of invertebrate survey methods. The author then deals, chapter-by-chapter, with each major habitat type: woodland, grasslands, lowland heaths, freshwater wetlands,  and coastlands.

This is a digital reprint of the 2001 edition (ISBN:0-901930-30-0) - there are no changes or updates from the 2001 edition.

a welcome addition to the literature on habitat management and invertebrate conservation