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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Green, Bryn |
Author Affiliation: | Senior Lecturer, Ecology and Conservation, Dept. of Environmental Studies and Countryside Planning, Wye College, University of London |
Title: | Current practices in unintensive amenity grassland management |
Meeting Info.: | Nottingham University: September 25-27, 1985 |
Source: | Proceedings of the Third National Turfgrass Conference [UK]. 1985, p. 140-154. |
Publishing Information: | National Turfgrass Council [UK] |
# of Pages: | 15 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Low maintenance; Golf courses; Golf courses in the environment; Conservation; Habitats; Heath; Grazing; Animal manures; Mowing; Maintenance intensity; Flaming; Pros and cons
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Abstract/Contents: | "The growing acceptance of the desirability, for both economic and environmental reasons, of managing much amenity grassland less intensively has thrown a challenge to conservationists to specify more precisely what types of sward they wish to achieve and what are the best means of management for attaining them. An important new dimension has been added to this responsibility recently with changes in conservation and agricultural policy whereby farmers may be paid government support to practice husbandry systems which maintain grazing land specifically for its wildlife, landscape or recreational value. With estimates of up to 2 million hectares of land being currently surplus to arable production needs in Britain, it is possible that very large areas of land could be "set aside" and managed as amenity grassland. Unintensive, or extensive, amenity grass management may thus come to be practised not only in limited areas such as nature reserves, golf courses and road verges, but also much more in the wider countryside. Some of the different objectives, underlying ecological principles and management techniques available for doing this are discussed with particular reference to experience on nature reserves, golf course and farmland in Kent. It is argued that the main gaps in existing knowledge lie not so much in the effects of different techniques of management on the biological composition of the sward, as in knowing how appropriate management can be organized and made cost-effective." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
See Also: | See also related article "Questions to Bryn Green" Proceedings of the Third National Turfgrass Conference [UK], 1985, p. 155-157, R=85693. R=85693 |
See Also: | Other items relating to: Maintenance Intensity - Golf |
Note: | Summary appears as abstract Figures Tables |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Green, B. 1985. Current practices in unintensive amenity grassland management. p. 140-154. In Proceedings of the Third National Turfgrass Conference [UK]. Nottingham University: September 25-27, 1985. National Turfgrass Council [UK]. |
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