What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife

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This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity. Based on thirteen years of intensive research, it breaks the discussion into chapters on key environmental and vegetation assets and then discusses how to make these assets better for biodiversity. The work encompasses information on vertebrates and invertebrates on farms and their relationships with significant vegetation and environmental assets: woodland remnants, plantings, paddocks, rocky outcrops and waterways. A chapter is dedicated to each asset and how it can be managed. In the final chapter, the authors discuss the aggregation of these assets at the farm level - bringing all of the information together and also highlighting some landscape-scale perspectives on agricultural management for enhanced biodiversity. What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife is written in an engaging style and includes colour photographs and information boxes. It will be an important reference for landholders, hobby farmers, vineyard owners, naturalists interested in birds and other native animals, people from Catchment Management Authorities, natural resource managers and policy makers.

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"Lead author Lindenmayer and 13 fellow environmental researchers from the Australian National U. present findings from research conducted by the team over the past decade, investigating ways to improve the ecological sustainability of farming enterprises. Coverage includes an introduction and background; characteristics of good vegetation and environmental assets, including temperate woodland remnants, plantings, paddocks, rocky outcrops, and waterways; how each of the broad kinds of environmental assets on a farm contribute collectively to overall farm-level biodiversity; and ways to maintain or improve farms for better integration of conservation and agricultural production. Readership includes farmers, private landholders, winegrowers, natural resource managers, state and federal policy makers, wildlife conservation and management activists, and general readers. The book is illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, charts and diagrams."-- (06/01/2012)

Author Bio

David B Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian National University. He has worked in woodland environments since 1997 and has led a research team of many outstanding students and other researchers for much of that time. He has published 26 other books as well as over 565 scientific publications. He has worked on Australian biodiversity and forest and woodland environments for more than 25 years.