Meadows / George Peterken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterken, George, author.

Series:

British Wildlife Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meadows--Management.

Meadows.

Meadow plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2013.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The second volume of a major new series of books on British natural history. Meadows provide one of the most wide-ranging and eloquent treatments of this most quintessential British habitat. Yet the flower-rich hay meadows that have inspired writers and artists for hundreds of years have almost disappeared from our countryside. In this exceptional work, George Peterken, one of our most respected ecologists, brings together years of research and discovery from his travels across Britain and Europe, as well as an understanding borne out of caring for his own meadows, to produce a book that will put this often misunderstood habitat back in the public's eye. Filled with beautiful images of meadows and their denizens, this is a book everyone with an interest in this iconic habitat will want to own.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

1 Introducing meadows

2 The meadow flora

3 Classification and the variety of meadows

4 Origins

5 Making hay the traditional way

6 The geography of traditional meadows

7 Improving meadows

8 Diversity

9 Change in the meadows

10 European meadows

11 Translocating meadows to the colonies

12 Birds, bees, butterflies and other fauna

13 Meadows in the mind

14 Loss and survival

15 Looking forward

References

Plant names

Acknowledgements

eCopyright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 3, 2018).

ISBN:

1-4729-5470-X

1-4729-5471-8

OCLC:

1151198074