Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats: A Practical Guide and Case Studies - Hurford, Clive; Schneider, Michael; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
An Introduction to Conservation Monitoring -- Monitoring in Cultural Habitats -- The Relationship Between Monitoring and Management -- Traditional Approaches to Data Collection -- The Roles of Survey -- Surveillance -- Strategic Sampling -- Developing Projects for Monitoring Habitats -- Developing a Habitat Monitoring Project -- Identifying the Conservation Priority -- Incorporating Knowledge from Research -- Developing a Conservation Strategy -- Minimising Observer Error -- Identifying Site-Specific Condition Indicators for Habitats -- Where to Focus the Monitoring Effort -- Collecting the Monitoring Data -- The Supporting Roles of On-Site Photography -- Integrating Data in Geographical Information Systems -- The Case Studies -- The Monitoring Case Studies -- Monitoring Coastal Heaths at St David's -- Monitoring Arable Weeds at Newton Farm -- Monitoring Neutral Grassland at Somerton Farm -- Monitoring the Brown Bear Ursus Arctos in Västerbotten County -- Monitoring the Wolverine Gulo Gulo in Västerbotten County -- Monitoring the Greater Mouse-Eared Bat Myotis Myotis on a Landscape Scale -- Monitoring Choughs Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax on the Castlemartin Peninsula -- Narrow-Mouthed Whorl Snail Vertigo Angustior at Whiteford Burrows -- Monitoring The Heath Fritillary Mellicta Athalia in Thornden and West Blean Woods -- Woodland Monitoring -- Woodland Management -- Issues Specific to Monitoring Broad-Leaved Woodland -- Monitoring Issues Specific to Western Taïga Forests -- Beech Fagus Sylatica Forests at Biskopstorp -- Using Information from Remote Images -- Using Earth Observation to Monitor Habitats -- Planning a Remote Sensing Project -- Remote Sensing of Dune Habitats at Kenfig NNR -- Remote Sensing of Fen Vegetation at Cors Crymlyn NNR -- Coastal Lagoons in Sweden and Finland -- Looking to the Future -- The Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead.
Keywords: Life sciences; Conservation biology; Ecology .; Plant ecology; Zoology; Environmental management; Landscape ecology; Life Sciences, general; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Plant Ecology; Zoology; Environmental Management; Landscape Ecology