Ecology and Management of Coppice Woodlands - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412431106 ISBN 13: 9780412431104

Publisher: Springer, 1992

Synopsis

Contributed to by leading experts, this book looks at the history of coppice woodlands, their physical environment, the different management techniques used and their effects on the flora and fauna. The implications of this for conservation is controversial and this is debated in a lively way in many of the chapters.

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Review:

...The papers are clearly presented, and some are excellent scientific writing...I congratulate Dr Buckley and the contributors on having produced one of the best ecological symposium volumes of the last twenty years - Trends in Ecology and Evolution; ..this is a very important and impressive book: it provides a whole spread of detailed scientific information about coppice woodlands. It is well written and carefully edited. This will undoubtedly be a very useful book for arboriculturalists, ecologists, conservationists, landscape managers - Landscape Design; ...a valuable resource... - Forestry; This volume is an avenue that will lead students of forests in North America and elsewhere to this intriguing and relevant British literature - The Quarterly Review of Biology

Synopsis:

Despite the fact that there have been a large number of scientific studies on coppice woodlands, this is the first book devoted to the modern ecology of coppice. In the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, the management of woodlands by coppicing and pollarding in Britain was widespread and remained so until the late 19th century when pressure on land led to their decline. This way of managing woodlands and the implications of its decline is of great interest to foresters, conservationists and ecologists in a wide range of temperate areas of the world. Contributed to by leading experts, this book looks at the history of coppice their physical enviroment the different management techniques used and their effects on the flora and fauna. The implications of this for conservation is controversial and this is debated in a lively way by many of the chapters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0412431106
• ISBN 13: 9780412431104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Buckley G.P.