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Wildlife Pond Book: Create Your Own Pond Paradise for Wildlife [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, height x width x depth: 244x188x10 mm, weight: 500 g, 300 colour photos, including step-by-step sequences, and colour illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Sep-2019
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Wildlife
  • ISBN-10: 1472958322
  • ISBN-13: 9781472958327
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  • Cena: 21,08 €*
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 160 pages, height x width x depth: 244x188x10 mm, weight: 500 g, 300 colour photos, including step-by-step sequences, and colour illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 19-Sep-2019
  • Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Wildlife
  • ISBN-10: 1472958322
  • ISBN-13: 9781472958327
This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door.

Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone.

In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature.

As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net.

With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years.

So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.

Recenzijas

If you are considering installing a pond this season, this is an invaluable book to hand. - English Garden -- English Garden * English Garden * This is a handy, accessible softback, filled with clear images that illustrate practical concepts. - English Garden -- English Garden * English Garden *

Papildus informācija

This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door.
Foreword 6(3)
Kate Bradbury
Introduction -- the wonder of ponds 9(17)
What makes ponds so special?
11(2)
Prehistoric ponds
13(3)
Ponds and civilisation
16(2)
The birth of the ornamental pond
18(2)
The state of Britain's ponds
20(2)
Hidden values of ponds
22(4)
1 The Ideas Stage
Considering creatures
26(2)
Where to place a pond
28(2)
Holding water
30(2)
Profiling your pond
32(3)
Shaping your pond
35(1)
Tonics, pumps and filters
36(2)
Considering patio ponds
38(2)
Considering classic garden wildlife ponds
40(2)
Considering larger garden wildlife ponds
42(4)
2 Preparing Your Pond
Preparing your patio pond
46(2)
Digging the classic garden wildlife pond
48(4)
Digging a larger garden wildlife pond
52(2)
Pond features -- nesting sites
54(2)
Warming up
56(1)
Safe places for pond wildlife
57(1)
Feeding spots
58(2)
For pond watchers
60(2)
Connecting up your ponds
62(2)
Wildlife Tunnels
64(2)
Safe pond designs
66(4)
3 Managing Your Pond
Problem plants and algae
70(2)
Controlling problem plants and algae
72(2)
Repairing leaks
74(1)
Drought years
75(1)
Ponds in winter
76(2)
De-silting ponds
78(2)
Your pond and pollution
80(2)
Year-round management jobs
82(4)
4 Planting Up Your Pond
Sourcing pond plants
86(2)
Planting zones
88(2)
Deep-water planting -- submerged plants
90(2)
Deep-water planting -- floating-leaf and free-floating plants
92(2)
Shallow-water zones
94(2)
Wetland and pond-edge zones
96(2)
Invasive pond plants
98(4)
5 Pond Animals To Look Out For
Microscopic colonisers
102(2)
Worms and worm-like creatures
104(2)
Flies and their larvae
106(2)
Water beetles
108(2)
Water bugs
110(2)
Pond crustaceans
112(2)
Pond snails
114(2)
Mites and spiders
116(2)
Dragonflies and damselflies
118(4)
Caddisflies, mayflies and moths
122(1)
Frogs and toads
122(2)
Newts
124(2)
Snakes and lizards
126(2)
Birds
128(2)
Mammals
130(4)
6 Exploring Your Pond
Pond dipping
134(2)
Safe pond dipping
136(2)
School ponds
138(1)
Nighttime visitors
138(2)
Through the lens
140(2)
Plugging into the science
142(2)
Temporary housing
144(2)
Your pond and its food webs
146(2)
Glossary 148(2)
Useful organisations 150(2)
Taking inspiration from nature 152(4)
Further reading 156(1)
Image credits 157(1)
Index 158(2)
Acknowledgements 160
Jules Howard is a UK-based wildlife expert, author, science-writer and presenter. He writes about zoology and wildlife conservation and is a regular contributor to BBC Wildlife magazine, BBC Science Focus magazine and the Guardian. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world, partly by tapping into the wonder of ponds.