Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Conservation, restoration and rewilding
Contributions by Emeritus Professor Nick Reid, Professor Andrew Bennett, Dr Gary Howling, Professor Geoff Squire, Professor Theodore Alter, Professor David Johnson, Dr Jane Morrison, Mr Ian Montgomery, Dr Sara Burbi, Dr Ruth Little, Emeritus Professor Gordon Rausser, Dr Dean Ansell, Dr Liz Lewis-Reddy, Professor Ruurd van Diggelen, Professor Thomas Jones, Professor David Lindenmayer, Professor Adrian Manning, Professor Joanna Lambert, Professor Chris Dickman Edited by Emeritus Professor Nick Reid, Dr Rhiannon Smith
Publication date:
16 July 2024Length of book:
500 pagesPublisher
Burleigh Dodds Science PublishingDimensions:
229x152mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781801464543
Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contribute to climate change. A more regenerative approach is required to enable farmers to restore and work with the ecosystem services that underpin sustainable farming and food production. Biodiversity lies at the heart of this process.
Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding considers the range of techniques that can be implemented to improve biodiversity in farmland. It synthesises current research on the best ways to plan, implement and monitor ecological restoration projects as well the role of government agri-environment schemes. The book also assesses what we know about the use and impact of individual conservation practices, such as field margins and hedgerows, and ways of successfully rewilding farmland.