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Pond Conservation in Europe

    Environmental Science

  • 2012

There is growing awareness in Europe of the importance of ponds, and increasing understanding of the contribution they make to aquatic biodiversity and catchment functions. Collectively, they support

Developing the Pond Manifesto

European nature conservation at different levels and provides a meeting point and part-nership with land use planning. Knowledge of pond ecology is not enough to stop the decline of biodiversity –

The ecology and biodiversity of urban ponds

Recent research has demonstrated that ponds contribute a great deal to biodiversity at a regional level as networks of habitat patches that also act as ‘stepping stones’ to facilitate the movement of