Hedgerow Fact file
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Helges are strips of woodland edge habitat. Coming in many shapes and sizes, hedges range from narrow strings of closely trimmed scraggy hawthorn bushes sparse in wildlife, to thick bushes, tangled with dog rose, bramble and honeysuckle and overtopped with mature trees. Often the only link between other isolated patches of wildlife habitat scattered across the landscape, thick, flora-rich hedges provide valuable nesting and foraging opportumities for a huge range of wildlife.
Where
Temperate Climates E.G. UK
Fertile Soil - Due To Nutrient Release In Autumn
Climate
Mild/Wet - Good Conditions For Plant Growth
1. Suggest what would happen in a hedgerow ecosystem in the UK if Hawthorn bushes and berries had been cut down and removed. [ 2 marks ]
2. Food web of the Hedge Ecosystem: bacteria and fungi are eaten by Hawthorn bush berries. Then aphids eat the hawthorn bush berries, spiders and ladybirds, then eat the aphids and then the thrlish will eat. The spider and the aphid will also be eaten by the thrilsh and the ladybird would be eaten by the thrlish and the ladybird is also eaten by the sparrow but the Hawthorne berries are also eaten by the sparrow and the sparrow hooks eat everything .
2. Suggest one impact of sparrowhawks going extinct.
