Table of contents : Cover Title Page Copyright About the Editors Editors’ Preface Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements
1 The Entangled Bank 2 Cwm Idwal and the Nature of the Environment 3 Wytham: Questions about Life in a Deciduous Woodland 4 Moor House: Thinking Big While Looking at the Very Small 5 Windermere: An Introduction to the Nature of Ecosystems 6 Competition on the Isle of Cumbrae 7 Cooperation in the Cairngorms 8 Can We Explain Selborne’s Swifts? 9 Succeeding in Wicken Fen 10 Wytham Revisited: Exploring the Ecological Niche 11 Park Grass and the Hay Meadow Conundrum 12 The View from Ringinglow Bog: Britain as a Microcosm of the Planet
References Species Index General Index The New Naturalist Library About the Author About the Publisher