The Biodiversity Gardener : Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sterry, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gardening > England.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The bigger picture
  • Recent times
  • The fight back
  • Managing land for native wildlife
  • Why is biodiversity important?
  • Putting wildlife first
  • Different approaches
  • Does size matter?
  • A work in progress
  • What does the future hold?
  • Setting the Scene
  • Humble beginnings
  • Pamber: a country parish
  • The cottage and garden
  • Environmental Decline and Fall
  • Overview
  • Basingstoke
  • The parish of Pamber
  • The cottage and garden
  • Practical Biodiversity Gardening
  • Basic principles
  • Soil
  • Grassland
  • Woodland
  • Freshwater
  • The cottage as a habitat
  • Managed retreat from conventional gardening
  • The New Naturalist
  • A Biodiversity Gardener's Wildlife Overview
  • Garden wildlife classification
  • Flowering plant life histories, structure and tips for identification
  • Terrestrial Invertebrate classification and identification
  • Introducing Arthropods
  • The New Naturalist
  • A Closer Look at Garden Wildlife
  • Butterflies
  • Moths
  • Bees, wasps and allied insects
  • Beetles
  • True bugs and allies
  • True flies
  • Orthoptera
  • Terrestrial insect also-rans
  • Spiders and allies
  • Invertebrates of the underworld
  • Pond life
  • Amphibians and reptiles
  • Birds
  • Mammals
  • Pets and domesticated animals
  • Plants: a botanical overview
  • Fungi
  • Monitoring and Recording Wildlife
  • Making the Most of Your Garden, Both for Biodiversity and for You
  • Nets
  • Pond-dipping
  • Binoculars
  • Photography
  • Foes become friends
  • Botanical survey and study
  • Fieldcraft
  • Keeping and submitting records
  • Freshwater pollution
  • A Call to Action
  • Troubling developments
  • Is resistance futile?
  • Escape to what was the country
  • Plan of action
  • Challenging planning
  • Protected and notable species
  • Statutory nature conservation bodies
  • The moral of the story
  • I Am Not Alone
  • Manor Farm by Adam Rattray and Jenna Burlingham
  • The Hughes Family Wilding Project by Karl Hughes and Nicola Hughes
  • An oak wood on the edge of Dartmoor by Mic Cady
  • Ask Not What Nature Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for Nature
  • Historical perspective
  • Synergy
  • What's to be done
  • References
  • List of species

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