Historical Ecology of the British Flora
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1995.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1995. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1232-1 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.