Species conservation in managed habitats : the myth of a pristine nature with a preamble by Josef H. Reichholf

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Species conservation in managed habitats : the myth of a pristine nature with a preamble by Josef H. Reichholf

Title remainder

the myth of a pristine nature with a preamble by Josef H. Reichholf

Statement of responsibility

Werner Kunz

Creator

• Kunz, Werner, 1940-

Subject

• Wildlife conservation
• Nature conservation

Language

eng

Summary

Written by an author with longstanding experience in the ecology of insects and birds and with a stellar academic record in molecular life sciences, this is a welcome challenge to the widely held beliefs in conventional environmental policies. Werner Kunz convincingly explains why maintaining high biodiversity in Europe depends heavily on the existence of open space and sparse ground vegetation that is neither used for intensive modern agriculture, nor eliminated by reforestation. He questions the commonly propagated opinion that nature conservation is equivalent to species protection - and shows that technical habitat design can rescue endangered species

Dewey number

639.9

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography