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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"species-rich grassland"”.
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Potential for the restoration of lowland and wet grassland upon ex-arable land
… farmed landscape. One such habitat, lowland wet grassland, is represented within several Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs), including the Upper Thames Tributaries (UTI) ESA. Current UK agri-environment schemes provide the policy context for this study. An investigation to determine whether …
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Assessing the Role of 'Green Hay' in the Creation of Hay Meadows at the National Botanic Garden of Wales and the Implications for the Management of Amenity Land for Biodiversity.
Flower-rich hay meadows contain some of the highest levels of biodiversity of any habitat in the world. However, as a result of agricultural intensification they have all but disappeared in the UK. It is assessed that there are only 1605 hectares of lowland hay meadows left in Wales. This is …
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Increasing the success of community transfer when creating species-rich meadows using green hay strewing
… the number, diversity and evenness of plant species establishing in species-rich meadows created or enhanced with green hay from a semi-natural source meadow were studied. Three experiments were conducted on grasslands in Birmingham and Herefordshire: (i) Comparisons of species and community …