Woods as Habitat Patches for Birds: Application in Landscape Planning in the Netherlands

The western part of the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated areas of the world. A series of cities forms a ring of urban development surrounded by an open agricultural landscape (the Randstad, Figure 1). This urban-agricultural area separates a narrow coastal forest belt to the west from an agricultural landscape with intermingled woodlots and medium-sized forests on Pleistocene deposits to the east. This chapter explores how ecological prerequisites play key roles in the planning of new forest areas. Spatial relations between the existing and the planned forests will be particularly important in this analysis.

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