Ecological relations in historical times : human impact and adaptation /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995. |
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| Description: | xvi, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Institute of British Geographers special publications series ; 32 Special publications series (Institute of British Geographers) ; 32. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2381026 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Ecological relations in historical times: an introduction / Neil Roberts and Robin A. Butlin
- Pt. I. Scotland. 2. The machair vegetation of South Uist and Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland: its interacting ecological, geomorphic and historical dimensions / David D. Gilbertson, M. Kent, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, P. A. Wathern, R. Weaver and Barbara A. Brayshay. 3. A lake-sediment record of changing land-use intensity on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland / Jane A. Entwistle, H. F. Lamb, P. W. Abrahams and R. A. Dodgshon. 4. A Scottish broad: historical, stratigraphic and numerical studies associated with polleniferous deposits at Kilconquhar Loch / Graeme Whittington and Kevin J. Edwards. 5. A rising cloud of midges in the Scottish Highlands? / Alasdair Roberts
- Pt. II. England and Wales. 6. Medieval land use, agriculture and environmental change on Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumbria / K. Walsh, D. O'Sullivan, R. Young, S. Crane and A. G. Brown. 7. A rough and cold country: farming and landscape changes in northern Snowdonia since c.1600 / Mark Brayshay and Andrew Williams. 8. Social, economic and environmental change in the fen and fen-edge region of East Cambridgeshire in the nineteenth century / Robin A. Butlin. 9. Woodland history and plant indicator species in north-east Yorkshire, England / Richard Gulliver
- Pt. III. The North Atlantic Region. 10. Ancient Saami in Finnish Lapland and their impact on the forest vegetation / Christian Carpelan and Sheila Hicks. 11. Introductions, extinctions or continuity? Faunal change in the North Atlantic Islands / Jon P. Sadler and Peter Skidmore. 12. By-passing Ellis Island: insect immigration to North America / Paul C. Buckland, Allan C. Ashworth and Don W. Schwert. 13. A question of Landnam: pollen, charcoal and insect studies on Papey, eastern Iceland / Paul C. Buckland, Kevin J. Edwards, J. J. Blackford, Andrew J. Dugmore, Jon P. Sadler and Guorun Sveinbjarnardottir
- Pt. IV. North America and the Caribbean. 14. Ecological responses to ecosystem shock in the island Caribbean: the aftermath of Columbus, 1492-1992 / David Watts. 15. Human impact on the wetlands of Belize, Central America / Peter A. Furley, David M. Munro, Janice P. Darch and Roland R. Randall. 16. Invasion and transformation of California's valley grassland, a Mediterranean analogue ecosystem / Mark A. Blumler
- Related Titles: List of IBG Special Publications.