Michael Shrubb

Birds, Scythes and Combines

A History of Birds and Agricultural Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2003, this book accounts the impact of changes in farming methods on the bird populations of British farmland over the past 250 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781107405172
• ISBN-10: 1107405173
• Artikelnr.: 35891916

Autorenporträt

Michael Shrubb is a retired farmer with a lifelong interest in birds which he has been studying since the late 1950s.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgements
1. The agricultural background
2. The farmland birds
3. Arable farming systems: high farming and before
4. Enclosure
5. Some thoughts on hedges
6. Drainage
7. Weeds, weeding and pesticides
8. Arable farming systems: after 1945
9. Grassland and stock
10. Winter food resources
11. Labour, machines and buildings
12. Exploitation
13. Conclusions
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography and references
Index.