The Wet Grassland Guide : Managing Floodplain and Coastal Wet Grasslands for Wildlife

In the UK there are some 1.5 million hectars of low-lying land, much of which has the potential to be wet grassland.

Most has been drained and improved for agriculture - only 109,500 hectares support breeding waders.

There are 32 RDB/candidate RDB species of birds which depend or partly depend on lowland wet grassland.

In addition, some 500 of the 1500 British vascular plant species and large numbers of invertibrate may be found in this habitat.This book describes the importance of lowland wet grasslands for wildlife and people and concentrates on the practical aspects of management and rehabilitation.

It deals with wet grasslands as a commercial resource and focuses on management that benefits wildlife.

A series of 15 case studies are included.