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HEATHLANDS (NN 72)

by Nigel Webb

Published by Book Club Associates. 1st thus. 1986

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. New Naturalist series No. 72. Book Club edition - no price and no 'Collins' at base of spine of dustwrapper. Green cloth. 20 colour photos and over 100 b/w photos and diagrams.

There are a couple of old, light sellotape marks to corners of the front free-endpaper and there is evidence of erased heavy pencil. The spine of the dustwrapper is lightly faded (as is usual with the NN books).

ISBN: 0002190206
Stock no. 1330586

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Contents

  • Editor's Preface
  • Author's Preface
  • 1. 'A Waste and Barren Land'
  • The 'image' of heathland
  • Definitions, and the scope of the book
  • 2. The Basic Requirements
  • Heathland zones and distribution
  • The influence of climate, soils, geology
  • 3. A Primeval Landscape?
  • Early views on the origins of heathland
  • Pollen analysis - and the findings
  • Heathland pollen profiles
  • 4. The Influence of Man
  • Farming, settlement, land-use and the effects
  • The documentary evidence, grazing, fuel-gathering, etc
  • 5. British Lowland Heaths
  • Flora, fauna, and distinctive, characteristics of individual 'plant' communities
  • 6. Heathland Plant Communities
  • The pattern of vegetations. The categories of heathland plant communities
  • 7. The Dynamics of Heathland Vegetation
  • The patters of change, and succession. Production and decomposition. Nutrients. The effects of fire, and post-fire succession
  • 8. The Heathers
  • Distributions, characteristics, germinations, life history
  • 9. Other Heathland Plants
  • Plants of dry heath, wet and humid heath
  • Gorses, whins and brooms. Insectivorous plants
  • 10. Heathland Invertebrates
  • Species and ecology, Ants, Spiders, grasshoppers, dragonflies, beetles and bugs. Heather beetle, butterflies and moths
  • 11. Heathland Vertebrates
  • Species and ecology. Amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals
  • 12. What the Future Holds
  • The science of ecology. Conservation managements, restoration. Criteria for selecting reserves. Burning. Brackens. Scrub control. Protection of individual species. Recreation and amenity.
  • References for Further Reading
  • Heathland Nature Reserves
  • Index

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