Woodland Habitats explores the history, ecology and importance of woodlands and offers a guide to all the key conservation and managment issues.
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Authors are a site ecologist specialising in woodland management issues and a consultant and advisor on woodland management issues.
Case studies include: Burnham Beeches (Buckinshamshire), Bradfield Woods (Suffolk) Kielder (Northumberland) Inschriach (Cairngorms) Coed Y Rhygen (Gwynedd) The National Forest (The Midlands) all UK
'Woodland Habitats is a clearly written and readable introductory text on woodlands. intelligible to the interested layman, and also students up to and including undergraduate level. It is modestly priced and well illustrated, and should have wide general appeal. - Geography
Helen Read is the site ecologist at Burnham Beeches NNR Buckinghamshire, UK. She is co-author of The Biology of Millipedes (OUP, 1992) and Animals Under Logs and Stones, (Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd, 1996). Mark Frater has a background of forestry before being appointed Site Manager for Burhman Beeches in 1987. He is now a consultant and advisor specialising in woodland management.