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Design for Biodiversity
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Design for Biodiversity

by Kelly Gunnell, Carol Williams, Brian Murphy
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
136 pages
7h 19m
English
RIBA Publishing
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Chapter OneBiodiversity and the importance of buildings

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1.1 Building-reliant biodiversity

As our buildings and developments have crept over the landscape, some animal species have adapted to share our built structures with us in order to survive, and have done so for a very long time. Some of these animals have come to depend on buildings for their survival. We term them ‘building-reliant species’. This book focuses on how to maintain and enhance our buildings for building-reliant species, such as some bat and bird species. However, there are a large number of other organisms, such as some insects and plants, that make use of our built structures ...

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ISBN: 9781000705126