skip to content
Urban habitats
ClosePreview this item

Urban habitats

Author: C Philip Wheater
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series: Habitat guides.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:

Urban Habitats presents and illustrated and practical guide to the wide range of urban habitats and the flora and fauna which live within them, and examines the most important conservation and  Read more...

Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: C Philip Wheater
ISBN: 0415162645 9780415162647 0415162653 9780415162654
OCLC Number: 39545819
Description: xiii, 188 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Impacts of physical factors --
Ecological aspects --
Colonisation and establishment --
Adaptations and characteristics --
Geographical influences --
The Ecology of Urban Habitats --
Terrestrial urban habitats --
Woods, trees and parklands --
Parks, gardens and allotments --
Playing fields, golf courses and other grasslands --
Demolition sites --
Industrial wasteland, spoil heaps, quarries and mines --
Refuse tips --
Road verges and railways --
Walls, buildings and paved areas --
Churchyards and cemeteries --
Aquatic urban habitats --
Marshes and reedbeds --
Streams, rivers and canals --
Ponds, lakes and reservoirs --
Sand and gravel pits --
Sewage works --
Coastal features --
Management and Conservation --
Pollution --
Heavy metals and woodlands --
Lichens and sulphur dioxide pollution --
Freshwaters and pollution --
Noxious species --
Noxious plants --
Noxious animals --
Managing noxious species --
Habitat management --
Ecological guidelines --
Reclamation and restoration of derelict land --
Strategies for nature conservation --
Urban wildlife and city people --
Reclaiming limestone quarry faces in Derbyshire --
Ecological parks in London --
Habitat initiatives in Merseyside --
Landlife --
Sutton Mill Dam --
Mersey Community Forest --
The Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow --
A stormwater retention basin in the West Midlands --
Coastal habitats in Cardiff --
Practical Work --
Experimental design --
Health and safety --
Distribution of pavement plants --
Flora of urban wasteland.
Series Title: Habitat guides.
Responsibility: C. Philip Wheater ; illustrations by Jo Wright.
More information:

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39545819>
library:oclcnum"39545819"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/39545819>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Intangible
schema:name"Habitat (Ecology)--Great Britain."
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:author
schema:datePublished"1999"
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"Urban habitats"
schema:numberOfPages"188"
schema:publisher
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.