Studies in the vegetational history of the British Isles
Subtitle: essays in honour of Harry Godwin
By: edited by D. Walker & R. G. West.
Contributors: Godwin, Harry, Sir, 1901-; Walker, D. 1928-; West, R. G.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P.
Published: 1970
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Paleobotany -- British Isles; Plant ecology -- British Isles; Paleobotany -- Quaternary; Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Pleistocene history of the British Flora, by R. G. West.; title: The history of the Ericaceae in Ireland during the Quaternary Epoch, by G. F. Mitchell and W. A. Watts.; title: Land/sea level changes in Scotland, by J. J. Donner.; title: Vegetation history in the north-west of England: a regional synthesis, by W. Pennington.; title: The influence of Mesolithic and Neolithic man on British vegetation: a discussion, by A. G. Smith.; title: Post-Neolithic disturbance of British vegetation, by J. Turner.; title: Direction and rate in some British Post-glacial hydroseres, by D. Walker.; title: The ecological history of Blelham Bog National Nature Reserve, by F. Oldfield.; title: Maximum summer temperature in relation to the modern and Quaternary distributions of certain arctic-montane species in the British Isles, by A. P. Conolly and E. Dahl.; title: The Cambridge pollen reference collection, by R. Andrew.; title: The study of plant macrofossils in British Quaternary deposits, by C. A. Dickson.