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Integrating wildlife conservation in farm landscapes /
New and novel perspectives on integrating farming practices and wildlife conservation and other environmental values.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Vic. :
CSIRO Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The underlying philosophy of our applied research work and the scientific process; The concept of 'scale'; The structure of this book; Our use of common and scientific names; Caveats; 2 Birds; Bird breeding success in woodland patches; Birds in nest boxes; Birds and paddock trees; Networks of species
- friends and foes; Not all patches of bush are equal
- bird responses to different kinds of broad vegetation structure; Why are there such marked differences in bird occurrence between the different kinds of vegetation?
- Which attributes of remnants are important for birds?Which attributes of plantings are important for birds?; Birds and travelling stock reserves; Pines and woodland patches; Bird responses to total vegetation cover at different scales; Bird occurrence over time; Do plantings get better with age?; Birds and the Millennium Drought; Management interventions and birds; Are birds good indicators?; Concluding comments; 3 Mammals; Introduction; Habitat trees, paddock trees and arboreal marsupials
- the case of the Squirrel Glider.
- Countryside elements and mammals
- the special case of the Squirrel GliderMammals in nest boxes; What makes a good woodland remnant for arboreal marsupials?; Mammals and travelling stock reserves; Can there be too many mouths to feed?; Change in mammal abundance over time; Mammals in woodland patches surrounded by pine stands; Concluding comments; 4 Reptiles; A way of categorising reptiles; Reptiles and regrowth woodland; Do reptiles use tree plantings?; Boulenger's Skink and lizard morphology; Rocky outcrops and reptiles; Management interventions and reptiles; Reptile assemblages.
- Reptiles in woodlands surrounded by stands of pineConcluding comments; 5 Invertebrates; Kangaroos and beetles; Ants in grazing landscapes; Butterflies in grazing landscapes; 'Bugs' and pines
- what happens to invertebrates in eucalypt patches surrounded by pine plantations; Concluding comments; 6 Vegetation cover and plants; Introduction; Increase in vegetation cover over time; Changes in vegetation attributes over time; How management interventions changes and improves vegetation; Where in landscapes are key vegetation structures most likely to occur?
- Paddock trees as keystone elements in agricultural landscapes
- changes in paddock trees over timeMistletoe as a key resource; Large logs as a critical resource; Home grown
- native grass as a key habitat resource; Rocks are good for plants too; Regeneration dynamics in grazing landscapes; Where it is best to do plantings and how they should be designed?; Concluding comments; 7 Managing wildlife friendly farms; Introduction; Protect what is already there; Restore what is missing; Putting it all together
- evidence-based farm planning for integrating farming, biodiversity and other values.