Studies In The Vegitational History Of The British Isles

Author : D. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521112017
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles written by D. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The topics discussed include the study of plant remains, both pollen and larger fossils such as leaves and seeds, land and sea-level changes, the relation of archaeology to vegetation history and the evidence for vegetation change. The book sets out in essay form the many recent advances in the subject, the present state of knowledge and suggests lines for future research. The techniques and principles discussed are pertinent to Quaternary Research elsewhere and the book should be of interest to workers overseas as well as to those in Great Britain.

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Publisher : CUP Archive
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the Vegitational History of the British Isles written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R.L. Jones
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401115206
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Pleistocene Environments in the British Isles written by R.L. Jones and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years. Well-illustrated and referenced, it possesses a unique position in the literature on Pleistocene events in the British Isles.

Author : John G. Evans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520029736
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Environment of Early Man in the British Isles written by John G. Evans and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chapter on the period

Author : B. Huntley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940093081X
Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book Vegetation history written by B. Huntley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of vegetation history is one of the prime objectives for vegetation scientists. In order to understand the recent composition of local floras and plant communities a second knowledge of species com position during recent millenia is essential. With the present concern over climate changes, due to human activities, an understanding of past vegeta tion distribution becomes even more important, since the correlation between climate and vegetation can often be used to predict possible impacts to crops and forests. I was very fortunate to receive the help of Drs. Webb and Huntley to compile this volume on vegetation history. They have collated an impres sive set of papers which together give an account of the vegetation history of most of the continents during the late-Tertiary and Quaternery periods. There are, however, gaps in the coverage achieved, most notably Africa, and Asia apart from Japan. The information in this book will nonetheless certainly be used widely by vegetation scientists for the regions covered in the book and much of it has relevance to the areas not explicitly described. The authors of the individual chapters have done their best to cover recent topics of interest as well as established facts. It is intended that a separate volume will be produced in the near future covering the vegetation history of Africa and Asia. I thank the editors of It fits well into the this volume for their commendable achievement.

Author : Sir Arthur George Tansley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book The British Islands and Their Vegetation written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. S. Rodwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521627191
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Plant Communities written by J. S. Rodwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country.

Author : Peter Andrews
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862390362
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution written by Peter Andrews and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part 3. Quaternary Environments, with particular emphases on the English Midlands, western Scotland and southern Africa."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout this commemorative volume, the determination of editors and authors to place the results of specialist research into their environmental context is perhaps the clearest indication of the visionary influence of Bill Bishop."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Chantal Conneller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000475158
Total Pages : 437 pages
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Download or read book The Mesolithic in Britain written by Chantal Conneller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character. The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand the Mesolithic inhabitation of Britain as a historical process. The period was, in fact, a time of profound change: houses, monuments, middens, long-term use of sites and regions, manipulation of the environment and the symbolic deposition of human and animal remains all emerged as significant practices in Britain for the first time. The book describes the lives of the first pioneers in the Early Mesolithic; the emergence of new modes of inhabitation in the Middle Mesolithic; the regionally diverse settlement of the Late Mesolithic; and the radical changes of the final millennium of the period. The first synthesis of Mesolithic Britain since 1932, it takes both a chronological and a regional approach. This book will serve as an essential text for anyone studying the period: undergraduate and graduate students, specialists in the field and community archaeology groups.

Author : F. M. Chambers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401091765
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Download or read book Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape written by F. M. Chambers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A. G. Smith - one of the leading researchers in Holocene palaeoecology. A. G. Smith took his first degree at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1951 with a first-class honours degree in Botany. His doctorate was awarded in 1956 for a study in late-Quaternary vege tational history, based in the Sub-Department of Quaternary Research at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of the late Sir Harry Godwin, FRS. He then researched and taught at Queen's University, Belfast, from 1954, leading the Nuffield Quaternary Research Unit there, becoming Co-Director of the Palaeoecology Laboratory from 1964. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Botany (later, Plant Science) at University College, Cardiff, in 1973, and retired from the School of Pure and Applied Biology at the renamed University of Wales College, Cardiff, in August 1991. Although his principal interests have been concerned with the post-glacial environmental history of the British Isles, Professor Smith has significantly in fluenced many researchers elsewhere in their interpretation of biological and other evidence for human modification of the natural environment.