Making an impact on UK farmland pond conservation
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It is of vital importance that aquatic conservation is evidence based, and in the field of farmland pond management and restoration evidence was largely lacking until an article published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (AQC) in 2012. To examine the influence of farmland pond management on aquatic biodiversity conservation, macrophyte and invertebrate diversity in ponds subject to traditional management involving scrub and occasional sediment removal at different time intervals in the past (0–2, 3–5, 6–10 years since management), were compared with a set of neighbouring, highly terrestrialized ponds that had not been managed for many decades. With the exception of Mollusca, significantly higher species diversity was found for managed ponds compared with the late‐succession unmanaged ponds, with invertebrate gamma diversity significantly lower for the late‐succession ponds, compared with all the managed pond categories. The AQC article was a key component of the Natural England (UK Government's adviser on the natural environment in England) ‘Freshwater and Wetland Conservation Narrative’ and has helped with integrating pond management into recent great crested newt Triturus cristatus mitigation policy as well as bringing it to the fore in past and evolving agri‐environment policy. The AQC article provided the evidence and in turn the confidence for the authors and a number of conservation partners to form a Norfolk Ponds Project. Since 2014, the Proje…
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There is a growing body of research and expertise centered on the successful restoration and management of ponds in a variety of landscape settings, in particular European farmland and semi-natural habitats, Mediterranean coastal plains, and the prairies of Canada and the United States.
“In addition, there is a growing body of research and expertise centered on the successful restoration and management of ponds in a variety of landscape settings, in particular European farmland and semi-natural habitats (Sayer et al. 2012;Sayer and Greaves 2020), Mediterranean coastal plains (Sebasti an-Gonz alez and Green 2014), and the prairies of Canada and the United States (Bortolotti et al.”
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- Authors
- Sayer, C. D., & Greaves, H. M.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sayer, Carl D.
- Venue
- Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1821-1828
- ISSN
- 1052-7613 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0755
- OpenAlex
- W3087476418
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 1.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Keywords
- farm ponds, pond management, pond restoration, aquatic biodiversity conservation, macrophyte diversity, sediment removal, great crested newt, evidence-based conservation, research impact, clinical translation
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