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Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles - Essays in Honour of Harry Godwin

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Klappentext A set of case-studies of the history of British vegetation during the last million years. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays! presented to Professor Godwin to mark his retirement in 1968! is a set of case-studies of the history of British vegetation during the last million years or so! a time of rapid climatic changes associated with the Ice Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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Authors D. Walker, D. West Walker, Donald West Walker
Assisted by D. Walker (Editor), Walker D. (Editor), R. G. West (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.06.2009
 
EAN 9780521112017
ISBN 978-0-521-11201-7
No. of pages 284
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Botany & plant sciences, Palaeontology, Botany and plant sciences

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