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ARPHA Conference Abstracts :
Conference Abstract
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Ian White‡, Megan Gimber‡|
Corresponding author: Megan Gimber (megan.gimber@ptes.org)
Received: 06 Apr 2022 | Published: 15 Apr 2022
© 2022 Ian White, Megan Gimber
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
White I, Gimber M (2022) The Benefit of Healthy Hedgerows. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 5: e84975. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.5.e84975
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Abstract
There is an interest in hedgerows because they are home to both plants and animals and provide habitat connection corridors to enable wildlife can move around the landscape. They also deliver a number of additional benefits to farmland, beyond that of a field boundary. These can include:
• shelter for livestock
• regulation of water supply for crops
• improvements in animal health
• reduction in soil erosion
• reduction in the need for pesticide use
• sustaining pollinator communities which support productive farming
• providing a sustainable source of wood fuel
• reducing the risk of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds
• reducing the rate of climate change through carbon storage
• reducing pollution
Presenting author
Ian White
Presented at
Poster presentation at the 11th International Dormice Conference 2022