Historical Ecology of the British Flora - Ingrouille, M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995)
1 The fossil flora: 440 million to 14 thousand years ago -- 1.1 Hard evidence from the past -- 1.2 The Silurian and Lower Devonian -- 1.3 The Middle and Upper Devonian -- 1.4 The Lower Carboniferous -- 1.5 The Upper Carboniferous -- 1.6 The Permian and Triassic -- 1.7 The Jurassic -- 1.8 The Cretaceous -- 1.9 Recognizing the past -- 1.10 Tertiary floras -- 1.11 The London Clay flora -- 1.12 Oligocene floras beside mountain lakes and streams -- 1.13 The Quaternary period -- 1.14 The Anglian glaciation -- 1.15 Late Pleistocene interglacials -- 1.16 The last cold stage, the Devensian stage -- 1.17 A relic glacial vegetation? -- 1.18 The ice melts -- 2 The 'natural' vegetation of the British Isles: 14 000 to 5000 years ago and its survival today -- 2.1 The Late Devensian -- 2.2 Plants, climate and soils -- 2.3 The Windermere and Woodgrange interstadials -- 2.4 A cold snap, the Loch Lomond and Nahanagan stadials -- 2.5 Postglacial warmth -- 2.6 A surviving herb flora -- 2.7 The spread of the wildwood -- 2.8 The wildwood, primary and ancient woodlands -- 2.9 The ecology of the wildwood -- 2.10 'Natural' vegetation? -- 3 The managed landscape: fields, pastures, woods and gardens -- 3.1 The elm decline -- 3.2 Clearings in the wildwood -- 3.3 Marking out the land in the Bronze Age -- 3.4 Ownership, rights and duties -- 3.5 Exploiting the countryside -- 3.6 Evolution in our flora -- 3.7 The exotic flora -- References.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Paleontology .; Plant physiology; Evolutionary Biology; Paleontology; Plant Physiology