Habitat Creation and Repair

With increasing public awareness of environmental issues, landscape managers and developers are being required to create substantial areas of naturalistic planting, particularly in urban areas, and to restore habitats degraded by building, development or overuse. This book provides the definitive guide to habitat creation and repair, ranging from ethics, theory, and principles to the practical details of designing habitats for wildlife. With chapters spanning all the major types of habitat to be found in the UK, the book gives advice on deciding when habitat creation is the correct path to follow, and then covers all steps from site survey through to the final design and actual realization of the scheme. For each habitat, the authors describe the options, problems, and solutions most likely to be encountered, and give examples of good and bad habitat creation in practice.