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Academic & Professional Books  Habitats & Ecosystems  Farmland Ecosystems

The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins

By: John W Dover(Editor)
292 pages, 85 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 17 tables
Publisher: Earthscan
NHBS
This edited collection reviews the current state of research on hedgerows and field margins, looking at their management and the biological benefits they provide.
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Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognized by ecologists. The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins reviews and assesses the current state of research on hedgerows and associated field margins.

With the intensification of agriculture in the second half of the last century, field sizes were increased by amalgamation and the rooting out of hedges, synthetic pesticide and inorganic fertilizer use increased, and traditional methods of hedge management were largely abandoned. The book is split into two main sections. The first deals with definitions, current and historic management, the impact of pesticides, the decline in hedge stock and condition, and new approaches to hedge evaluation using remote sensing techniques. The second section explores the pollination and biological pest control benefits provided by hedges and field margins and examines the ecology of some of the major groups that are found in hedgerows and field margins: butterflies and moths, carabid beetles, mammals, and birds. A case study on birds and invertebrates from a research farm managed as a commercial enterprise, but which attempts to farm with wildlife in mind, brings these themes together. A final chapter introduces the neglected area of hedges in the urban environment.

The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins will be of great interest to advanced students, researchers and professionals in ecology, agriculture, wildlife conservation, natural history, landscape, environmental and land management.

Contents

1. Introduction to Hedges and Field Margins
      John W. Dover
2. Botanical diversity in the hedges and field margins of lowland Britain
      Philip J. Wilson
3. Hedges for invertebrates and plants: how current and historic hedgerow management alters their structural condition and value as a semi-natural habitat
      Joanna T. Staley, Marc S. Botham, Richard F. Pywell
4. Remote Sensing Applications for Hedgerows
      Lyndsey Graham, Richard K. Broughton, France Gerard, Rachel Gaulton
5. Impact of pesticide use on the flora and fauna of field margins and hedgerows
      Cristina Botías, Kate Basley, Elizabeth Nicholls and Dave Goulson
6. The Crop Headland: managing the edges of crops to support wildlife
      N.W. Sotherton
7. Contribution of hedgerows to biological control
      John M. Holland
8. Multi-scale control of carabid assemblages in hedgerow network landscapes
      Jacques Baudry and Françoise Burel
9. Restoring pollinator communities and pollination services in hedgerows in intensively-managed agricultural landscapes
      Claire Kremen, Matthias Albrecht and Lauren Ponisio
10. The ecology of butterflies and moths in hedgerows and field margins
      J.W. Dover
11. Birds of Hedgerows and Other Field Boundaries
      Shelley A. Hinsley and Paul E. Bellamy
12. Ecology and conservation of mammals of hedgerows and field margins
      Ruth E. Feber, Paul J. Johnson, Merryl Gelling and David W. Macdonald
13. Bird and invertebrate ecology in field margins – Lessons from Loddington
      Chris Stoate
14. Biodiversity Value of Urban hedges
      Eleanor Atkins

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Biography

John W. Dover is Emeritus Professor of Ecology at Staffordshire University, UK. He has a particular interest in the ecology butterflies on farmed land, especially in relation to hedges, green lanes, and extensive grassland. He also has an interest in the urban environment and is the author of Green Infrastructure: Incorporating Plants and Enhancing Biodiversity in Buildings and Urban Environments (Routledge, 2015).

By: John W Dover(Editor)
292 pages, 85 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 17 tables
Publisher: Earthscan
NHBS
This edited collection reviews the current state of research on hedgerows and field margins, looking at their management and the biological benefits they provide.
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"This features contributions from leading academics in the field of hedgerow ecology, although many also have a practical knowledge of management [...] every chapter pretty much stands alone as a fine piece of reference work, and one can dip in and out anywhere and be sure to learn something."
– Clive Bealey, British Wildlife 31(5), June 2020

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