Bird Ecology and Conservation A Handbook of Techniques

individuals: e.g. parrots are preferentially captured as nestlings for the pet trade (Beissinger and Bucher 1992); eggs of the M ...

magnitude than previous experience; it may not be palatable to apply the more aggressive treatments to the more vulnerable popul ...

324 |Exploitation Box 13.3Case study: adaptive harvest management of Mallards In North America, duck harvest is regulated by ann ...

It is critical that the monitoring system be tailored to the objectives and models particular to the management scenario in ques ...

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14. Habitat management Malcolm Ausden 14.1 Introduction Habitat management is the manipulation of habitats to provide suitable c ...

to re-colonize. In these situations, habitat management can be used to mimic the effects of these natural processes in a control ...

The key factors influencing the “condition” of these features. Whether there are potential conflicts and constraints in achievi ...

managed hay meadows. Over-reliance on traditional land-use practice can, though, have the disadvantage of fossilising potentiall ...

14.3 Monitoring Monitoring needs to be given a high priority. Without it, we have no way of knowing whether management is succes ...

334 |Habitat management Fig. 14.2Monitoring the effects of habitat management is fundamental to good site management. Here, dens ...

factors other than the physical condition of the habitat can also be important. In particular, there will be no point in creatin ...

To begin with, new management regimes for birds should be introduced only to a proportion of the existing habitat, to minimize t ...

remembering they can leach into waterbodies. Selective methods include “spot- spraying,” weed-wiping (wiping a systemic herbicid ...

times of year, while minimizing the potential damaging effects of management activities on breeding birds. On wet grasslands hyd ...

Sandpipers Bartramia longicauda. By creating more bare ground, burning also favors more annual plants, particularly if carried o ...

and disturbed ground, particularly under wet conditions and thereby increase birds’ access to soil invertebrates. The effects of ...

to help interpret changes in bird numbers. This can be done by taking measure- ments of sward height against the graduated side ...