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Wild large herbivores provide goods and income to rural communities, have major impacts on land use and habitats of conservation importance and, in so...
Read moreUpland heaths in the UK are of significant conservation importance. Large areas are managed through prescribed burning to improve habitat and grazing ...
Read moreWorld-wide, the controlled use of fire is an important ecological management tool and is essential for the continuance of many communities. It is used...
Read moreWoodland expansion is widely advocated for the mitigation of climate change and its impacts. This is supported by ambitious targets for increasing tre...
Read moreBotanical composition and herbivore (red deer, sheep, hares, rabbits and red grouse) usage were monitored over a 20-year period at 15 moorland sites; ...
Read moreThe abundance of breeding skylarks (Alauda arvensis) was determined by surveying singing males in over 600 randomly selected 1-km squares throughout B...
Read moreAgrostis capillaris-Festuca ovina plant communities are widespread in the uplands of Great Britain. They are agriculturally productive but little is k...
Read moreThis paper presents the response of the British Ecological Society Scottish Policy Group to the stakeholder questionnaire from the Grouse Moor Managem...
Read moreStudies on the botanical composition of 32 moorland sites were made during 1969-79. Changes in the cover of all vascular plants and in spp. number wer...
Read moreRed deer (Cervus elaphus) and Scottish Blackface sheep were grazed in a series of 10-day periods in plots of heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland havin...
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