The Monitoring Case Studies

Abstract

The book so far has focused on the problems associated with habitat monitoring and ways of overcoming them: the remainder of the book primarily comprises case studies that demonstrate the practical application of monitoring. The case study sites are distributed in five countries: England, Finland, Germany, Sweden and Wales, though most originate from Wales (Fig.16-1) and Sweden. In selecting the case studies, we have tried to cover as many broad habitat types and species groups as possible. The habitat case studies include arable land, neutral grassland, coastal heaths, broad-leaved woodland, coastal dunes, fens and coastal lagoons, while the species case studies cover large mammals, bats, birds, butterflies and snails. Most of the case studies are included in this part of the book, though the broad-leaved woodland case study is in Part V, and those for sand dunes, fens and coastal lagoons are in Part VI.