Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats:

An Introduction to Conservation Monitoring.- Monitoring in Cultural Habitats.- The Relationship Between Monitoring and Management.- Traditional Approaches to Data Collection.- The Roles of Survey.- Surveillance.- Strategic Sampling.- Developing Projects for Monitoring Habitats.- Developing a Habitat Monitoring Project.- Identifying the Conservation Priority.- Incorporating Knowledge from Research.- Developing a Conservation Strategy.- Minimising Observer Error.- Identifying Site-Specific Condition Indicators for Habitats.- Where to Focus the Monitoring Effort.- Collecting the Monitoring Data.- The Supporting Roles of On-Site Photography.- Integrating Data in Geographical Information Systems.- The Case Studies.- The Monitoring Case Studies.- Monitoring Coastal Heaths at St David’s.- Monitoring Arable Weeds at Newton Farm.- Monitoring Neutral Grassland at Somerton Farm.- Monitoring the Brown Bear Ursus Arctos in Västerbotten County.- Monitoring the Wolverine Gulo Gulo in Västerbotten County.- Monitoring the Greater Mouse-Eared Bat Myotis Myotis on a Landscape Scale.- Monitoring Choughs Pyrrhocorax Pyrrhocorax on the Castlemartin Peninsula.- Narrow-Mouthed Whorl Snail Vertigo Angustior at Whiteford Burrows.- Monitoring The Heath Fritillary Mellicta Athalia in Thornden and West Blean Woods.- Woodland Monitoring.- Woodland Management.- Issues Specific to Monitoring Broad-Leaved Woodland.- Monitoring Issues Specific to Western Taïga Forests.- Beech Fagus Sylatica Forests at Biskopstorp.- Using Information from Remote Images.- Using Earth Observation to Monitor Habitats.- Planning a Remote Sensing Project.- Remote Sensing of Dune Habitats at Kenfig NNR.- Remote Sensing of Fen Vegetation at Cors Crymlyn NNR.- Coastal Lagoons in Sweden and Finland.- Looking to the Future.-The Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead.