
Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Why this book was written
- The scope of this book
- The structure of this book
- 2 Potential impacts of development on flora and fauna
- Types of impacts
- Assessing impacts
- 3 Selecting measures to reduce impacts of development on wildlife - why an understanding of ecology is fundamental
- Ecosystem processes, function and resilience
- Species present and absent, and their habitat
- Population ecology
- Animal behaviour
- Movement and dispersal
- 4 Avoiding impacts on flora and fauna
- Conservation planning
- Ecologically sustainable development and the precautionary principle
- Measures to avoid impacts on wildlife
- Wildlife buffers
- 5 Modifying human behaviour to reduce impacts of development on flora and fauna
- Wildlife education
- Fauna crossing signs
- Reducing vehicle speed
- 6 Measures to reduce direct fauna and flora mortality during land clearance
- Fauna rescue
- Plant salvage
- 7 Measures to exclude or deter fauna from a development site
- Fauna exclusion fences
- Coverings
- Reducing the attractiveness of fauna habitat
- Visual deterrents
- Chemical deterrents
- Auditory deterrents
- 8 Measures to promote safe movement of fauna around and through a development site
- Natural habitat linkages
- Land bridges
- Fauna underpasses
- Canopy bridges
- Glide poles
- Escape routes
- Fauna inclusion fences
- Alternatives to barbed wire
- 9 Measures to minimise habitat degradation near a development site
- Weed prevention and control
- Discouraging exotic vertebrates
- Reduction of artificial lighting
- 10 Measures to provide additional habitat for flora and fauna impacted by development
- Revegetation and restoration of ecosystems
- Artificial frog ponds
- Wildlife-friendly dams
- Artificial tree hollows
- Artificial subterranean bat roosts
- Artificial nesting platforms
- Artificial retreats for reptiles
- Salvaged habitat features
- 11 Ex situ measures for conservation of flora and fauna
- Seed preservation
- Translocation
- 12 Environmental offsets
- Description and potential applications
- Effectiveness
- 13 Monitoring
- How can monitoring be used?
- Ecological monitoring approaches
- Monitoring results
- 14 Adaptive management
- 15 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
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