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The Natural History of Blenheim’s High Park

Flora / Fauna New
By: Aljos Farjon(Author), Bernard Mercer(Foreword By)
412 pages, colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps
The Natural History of Blenheim’s High Park
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  • The Natural History of Blenheim’s High Park ISBN: 9781784274306 Hardback Aug 2024 In stock
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High Park, at Blenheim in Oxfordshire, UK, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) of great significance for its numerous ancient oaks and the organisms associated with these trees. This book gives a detailed, lavishly illustrated and thoroughly researched description of the biodiversity and natural history of what is by several measures the most significant site for ancient oaks in Europe. It draws together the expertise of more than 60 specialists, and reports on the results of in-depth surveys of High Park.

Chapters cover different groups, including flora (including bryophytes), fungi, lichens, molluscs, arachnids, flies, Hymenoptera, butterflies, moths, beetles – with a special focus on saproxylic species, bugs, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals.

Despite their undoubted importance, very few sites with ancient oaks in England, the most important European country for these magnificent trees, have seen a comprehensive published account, adding to the value of this study. Several of the contributing authors describe their survey techniques in some detail, some of which are not widely known. Records are analysed in the various chapters and often compared with data from other similar sites. Overall, the book gives encouraging evidence of the great biodiversity still to be found in England, and should help to stimulate similar efforts to uncover the biodiversity and describe the natural history of ancient parkland and woodland, so that conservation of these sites can be based on firm scientific data.

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Aljos Farjon is a renowned botanist and recipient of several international awards for his work on conifers, on which he has published 11 books and more than 100 papers and articles. He is also an accomplished botanical artist, illustrating many of his books and papers. He worked successively at the Universities of Utrecht and Oxford and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew until his official retirement; he continues at Kew as an Honorary Research Associate. In recent years, Aljos has shifted his research interests to the extraordinary wealth of ancient oaks in his adopted country, England. His Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape was named ‘Reference Book of the Year’ in the Garden Media Guild Awards 2017.

Flora / Fauna New
By: Aljos Farjon(Author), Bernard Mercer(Foreword By)
412 pages, colour photos, b/w illustrations, colour maps
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