Ghosts in the Hedgerow: who or what is responsible for our favourite mammal’s decline

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Hexham Book Festival is a Not For Profit CIC and delivers an annual festival that takes place in and around Hexham each year. Vanneste T, Govaert S, Spicher F, Brunet J, Cousins SAO, Decocq G, Diekmann M et al (2020a) Contrasting microclimates among hedgerows and woodlands across temperate Europe. Agric For Meteorol 281:107818

Commission E (2013) Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005. Off J Eur Union 1698:487–548 Dr Tom Moorhouse is a conservation research scientist who has worked for twenty years at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, part of Oxford University’s Biology Department. His work has focussed on the conservation ecology of water voles, the management of signal crayfish, hedgehog conservation and the impacts of wildlife. Falloon P, Powlson D, Smith P (2004) Managing field margins for biodiversity and carbon sequestration: a Great Britain case study. Soil Use and Manag 20:240–247Moorhouse enjoyed hedgehogs being killed by traffic a little too much for my tastes, being at his most playful in his language when observing roadkill. It is fascinating and obscene. Apart from that (and from the narrative framing of various different factors being the True Hedgehog Murderer, personified and questioned by a golden-age style detective, which I'm sure some find useful but I just found distracting), it was a strong book that got better as it went on. I would recommend it to those interested in hedgehogs and/or ecological conservation in the UK and Europe. Anderson SH, Udawatta RP, Seobi T, Garrett HE (2009) Soil water content and infiltration in agroforestry buffer strips. Agroforest Syst 75:5–16 Lenka NK, Dass A, Sudhishri S, Patnaik US (2012) Soil carbon sequestration and erosion control potential of hedgerow and grass filter strips in sloping agricultural lands of eastern India. Agric Ecosyst Environ 158:31–40 For those with an interest in endangered species, Tom Moorhouse's Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whoddunit is a caring, amiable guide to who (and what) is responsible for the worrying decline of this cute mammal." Poeplau C, Don A, Vesterdal L, Leifeld J, VanWesemael B, Schumacher J, Gensoir A (2011) Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone–carbon response functions as a model approach. Glob Chang Biol 17:2415–2427

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Hedgehogs have been with us for millions of years, but they seem to be getting less abundant. How do we know, and why is it happening? These are important questions, easy to ask but very difficult to answer. That's partly because the issues are complex, research scanty and hedgehogs are surprisingly difficult to study properly. Tom has written a thorough, but very readable assessment of the challenges posed by the 20th century and what we can do to help the hapless 'Hedgie'." Peichl M, Thevathasan NV, Gordon AM, Huss J, Abohassan RA (2006) Carbon sequestration potentials in temperate treebased intercropping systems, southern Ontario, Canada. Agroforest Syst 66:243–257

R Core Team (2020) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria Hedgehogs have been with us for millions of years, but they seem to be getting less abundant. How do we know, and why is it happening? These are important questions, easy to ask but very difficult to answer. That's partly because the issues are complex, research scanty and hedgehogs are surprisingly difficult to study properly. Tom has written a thorough, but very readable assessment of the challenges posed by the 20th century and what we can do to help the hapless 'Hedgie'. Pat Morris, author, and president of the British Hedgehogs Preservation Society Hart K, Allen B, Keenleyside C, Nanni S, Maréchal A, Paquel K, Nesbit M, Ziemann J (2017) Research for agri committee - the consequences of climate change for EU agriculture. Follow-Up To the COP21 - Un Paris Climate Change Conference Brandle JR, Hodges L, Zhou XH (2004) Windbreaks in North American agricultural systems. Agrofor Syst 61:65–78 Nair PKR, Nair VD, Kumar BM, Showalter JM (2010) Carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems. In: Sparks DL (ed) Advances in agronomy, vol 108. Academic Press, New York, pp 237–307