Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles

Essays in Honour of Harry Godwin
Herausgeber: Walker, D.; West, R. G.

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Produktbeschreibung

A set of case-studies of the history of British vegetation during the last million years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 701g
• ISBN-13: 9780521112017
• ISBN-10: 052111201X
• Artikelnr.: 26033400

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pleistocene history of the British Flora R. G. West; 2. The history of
the Ericaceace in Ireland during the Quaternary Epoch G. F. Mitchell and W.
A. Watts; 3. Land/sea level changes in Scotland J. J. Donner; 4. Vegetation
history in the north-west of England: a regional synthesis W. Pennington;
5. The influence of the Mesolithic and Neolithic man on British vegetation:
a discussion A. G. Smith; 6. Post-Neolithic disturbance of British
vegetation Judith Turner; 7. Direction and rate in some British
post-glacial hydroseres D. Walker; 8. The ecological history of Blelham Bog
National Nature Reserve F. Oldfield; 9. Maximum summer temperature in
relation to the modern and Quaternary distributions of certain
arctic-montane species in the British Isles Ann P. Conolly and Eilif Dahl;
10. The Cambridge pollen reference collection R. Andrew; 11. The study of
plant macrofossils in British Quaternary deposits C. A. Dickson; Index.