Habitats in Europe

This new, exciting, scientific book series Habitats in Europe intends to review the status of European habitats. 

The main aims of this series are:

• To document the status of a wide range of threatened European habitat types
  
  
• To draw attention to the scale of biodiversity losses associated with each habitat type
  
  
• To raise the profile of recent research and surveillance projects associated with each habitat type, focusing on the key factors impacting on the habitats
  
  
• To provide examples of good practice and poor practice in relation to the management of the habitat 

• To propose ways of improving the habitat status and secure the biodiversity associated with it into the medium to long-term future

Many of the habitats covered by the series will be protected under the Natura 2000 legislation, i.e. the EU Habitats and Birds Directives, making the books relevant to all managers and practitioners involved in the delivery of these directives. These habitats are constantly changing in response to the increasing pressures and threats impacting on them.  Some of these changes are driven by natural factors such as successional processes, others by human influenced factors such as climate change, atmospheric depositions and site management decisions and actions.   Furthermore, in many cases, the factors indirectly influenced by humans also have a direct impact on the rate and type of changes being delivered through natural processes.     

A review of the habitat status, coupled with examples of good practice with regards to maintaining or restoring high biodiversity examples of the habitats, will be an invaluable resource for practitioners and researchers of the habitats. 

The Habitats in Europe bookseries is targeted to practitioners, managers and policy-makers in the fields of nature conservation; practitioners, managers and policy-makers working for organisations involved in the delivery of the EU Habitats and Birds Directives; researchers in the fields of Conservation Biology, Terrestrial Ecology, Nature Conservation, Applied Ecology, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Agricultural ethics and Environmental studies.