Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes
Books | Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Emeritus Professor Nick C. H. Reid
Professor Andrew F. Bennett
Professor G. R. Squire
Professor Theodore Alter
Professor David Johnson
Dr Jane Morrison
Dr Ian Montgomery
Dr Ruth Little
Emeritus Professor Gordon Rausser
Dr Dean Ansell
Dr Liz Lewis-Reddy
Professor Ruurd van Diggelen
Professor Thomas A. Jones
Professor David Lindenmayer
Professor Adrian D. Manning
Professor Christopher R. Dickman
Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contribute to climate change. A more regenerative approach is required to enable farmers to restore and work with the ecosystem services that underpin sustainable farming and food production. Biodiversity lies at the heart of this process.Managing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Conservation, restoration and rewilding considers the range of techniques that can be implemented to improve biodiversity in farmland. It synthesises current research on the best ways to plan, implement and monitor ecological restoration projects as well as the role of government agri-environment schemes. The book also assesses what we know about the use and impact of individual conservation practices, such as field margins and hedgerows, and ways of successfully rewilding farmland.
