Unit 1: Traditional Land Uses Creating Semi-Natural Habitats
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- Traditional Land Uses that have Created Semi-Natural Habitats
- Farming
- Grazing
- Prevents taller plants from shading and out-competing wildflowers
- Field Boundary Maintenance
- Hedges act as biological corridors for dormice
- Hawthorn berries provide food for migrating birds e.g. redwings
- Grazing
- Hunting and Fishing
- Maintenance of forest cover
- Provides habitats for mammals
- Provides nest sites for birds
- Provides dead wood for woodpeckers
- Moorland burning
- Provide habitats for other species e.g. hen harriers, silver-studded butterfly catterpillars
- Fishing
- Maintained and protected rivers and lakes used by water voles, otters and kingfishers e.g. River Test - Hampshire
- New habitats created due to popularity of fishing
- Maintenance of forest cover
- Woodland Management
- Coppicing
- Cutting trees to ground level on rotation produces a mixed habitat valuable to butterflies, insects and dormice
- Pollarding
- Cutting trees to 6ft protects new growth from grazing livestock and deer
- Coppicing
- Farming
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