Wildlife Conservation Evaluation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Wildlife conservation evaluation: attributes, criteria and values

      • Michael B. Usher

      Pages 3-44

   3. Assessing representativeness

      • Mike P. Austin, Christopher R. Margules

      Pages 45-67

   4. Ecological succession and the evaluation of non-climax communities

      • Richard G. Jefferson, Michael B. Usher

      Pages 69-91

3. Approaches in different geographical areas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Evaluation of tropical land for wildlife conservation potential

      • Richard J. McNeil

      Pages 95-110

   3. Evaluation methods in the United States

      • Sam H. Pearsall, Daryl Durham, Dan C. Eagar

      Pages 111-133

   4. Selection of important areas for wildlife conservation in Great Britain: the Nature Conservancy Council’s approach

      • Derek A. Ratcliffe

      Pages 135-159

   5. Wildlife conservation evaluation in the Netherlands: a controversial issue in a small country

      • S. W. Floris Van Der Ploeg

      Pages 161-180

   6. Evaluation at the local scale: a region in Scotland

      • E. T. Idle

      Pages 181-198

4. Specific habitats and groups of organisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Forest and woodland evaluation

      • Keith Kirby

      Pages 201-221

   3. Evaluating the wildlife of agricultural environments: an aid to conservation

      • Ralph Cobham, Janet Rowe

      Pages 223-246

   4. Ornithological evaluation for wildlife conservation

      • Robert J. Fuller, Derek R. Langslow

      Pages 247-269

   5. Assessments using invertebrates: posing the problem

      • R. Henry, L. Disney

      Pages 271-293

5. General principles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295

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   2. Conservation evaluation in practice

      • Christopher R. Margules

      Pages 297-314

   3. Design of nature reserves

      • Daniel Simberloff

      Pages 315-337

6. Back Matter

   Pages 339-394

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In the mid 1970s two events led me to get to know the Yorkshire Dales better than I had previously. Since 1964 I had been to the Malham Tarn Field Centre with groups of students, first from the University of Edinburgh and then from the University of York, and my family very much enjoyed the summer days we spent amid this magnificent hill scenery. In 1976, the British Ecological Society and the National Trust jointly worked on a survey of the biological interest of the National Trust properties of the Kent, East Anglian and Yorkshire Regions. Malham Tarn itself, and the surrounding farms, formed one of the twenty properties of the Yorkshire Region. I spent the bank holiday, that commemorated the Queen's Silver Jubilee, at Malham, looking fairly closely at the National Trust's landholding there. Miss Sarah Priest, who also looked at the National Trust properties, and I produced a report in late 1977, attempting both to describe and to evaluate the nature resources of the National Trust in Yorkshire. In the following year, 1978, the Nature Conservancy Council wanted to survey the whole of the upland area that was known as the Malhaml Arncliffe SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). A contract to look at such an exciting area, considering where boundaries should go, and looking to see if there were important areas of habitat that should be brought within the SSSI, was a superb practical antidote to an office in the University.

• Wildlife
• agriculture
• biological
• conservation
• environment
• forest
• invertebrates
• silver
• society

• Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK

  Michael B. Usher

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