The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe : A Nature Conservation Review

The Changing Status of Arable Habitats in Europe A Nature Conservation Review

This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe. Arable farming systems have evolved in the European landscape over more than ten thousand years and now occupy nearly 30% of the European land area. They support species that have life cycles closely sy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Hurford, Clive (-), Wilson, Phil, Storkey, Jonathan
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2020.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44417780*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Historical and Ecological Background to the Arable Habitats of Europe (Chris Stoate)
  • Part II. Regional Conservation Reviews of arable plant habitats
  • Chapter 2. A weed's eye view of arable habitats (Jonathan Storkey)
  • Chapter 3. The status of arable plant habitats in Northwestern Europe (Guillaume Fried)
  • Chapter 4. The status of arable plant habitats in Scandinavian countries (Terho Hyvonen)
  • Chapter 5. The status of arable plant habitats in Central Europe (Stefan Meyer)
  • Chapter 6. The status of arable plant habitats in Eastern Europe (Gyula Pinke)
  • Chapter 7. The arable flora of Mediterranean agricultural systems in the Iberian Peninsula: current status, threats and perspectives (Jordi Recasens)
  • Chapter 8. The status of arable plant habitats in Greece - the cradle of arable farming in Europe (Stefan Meyer)
  • Part III. Research and Surveillance Projects
  • Chapter 9. Soil organisms within arable habitats (Felicity Crotty)
  • Chapter 10. Agricultural intensification, sustainable farming and the fate of arable bryophytes in Switzerland (Irene Bisang)
  • Chapter 11. Invertebrate trends in an arable environment: long-term changes from the Sussex Study in Southern England (Julie Ewald)
  • Chapter 12. Ex situ conservation and reintroduction of vulnerable arable plants in Skåne, Sweden (Gabrielle Rosquist)
  • Chapter 13. Wild pollinators in arable habitats: trends, threats and opportunities (Mark JF Brown)
  • Chapter 14. Designing multifunctional and resilient agricultural landscapes: lessons from long-term monitoring of biodiversity and land use (Sabrina Gaba)
  • Part IV. Farmland Bird Case Studies
  • Chapter 15. Historic overview and conservation perspectives of the Czech grey partridge (Perdix perdix) population (Miroslav Šálek)
  • Chapter 16. Perspectives on the declining ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana) population in northern Sweden (Christer Olsson)
  • Chapter 17. The impact of land-use change on arable plant habitats and wintering farmland birds on a farm in south-west Wales, UK (Clive Hurford)
  • Chapter 18. The conservation of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) on farmland in southern England (Nick Sotherton)
  • Chapter 19. The changing status of steppe-land birds in the Lleida plain of Catalonia (Santi Mañosa)
  • Part V. Applications, Considerations and Recommendations
  • Chapter 20. Monitoring arable landscapes using free satellite imagery (Alan Brown)
  • Chapter 21. The Art of Agri-environment in the UK, an advisor's perspective (Emily Swann)
  • Chapter 22. The future of Europe's arable wildlife (Phil Wilson).

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