History of the British Flora
2nd Edition
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- Author: Godwin
- Date Published: July 1984
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521269414
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The chief aim of this book is the reconstruction of the processes and events that have determined the present flora and vegetation of the British Isles, first of all through the long ages when natural conditions prevailed and cycles of glaciations and recessions and slow geological processes were in charge, and afterwards through the nearer and much shorter span of time during which, from the Neolithic onwards, human interference has progressively and severely altered the scene. This is an exercise in biogeography that Darwin called 'that grand subject, that almost keystone to the laws of nature'. But instead of adopting Darwin's conjectural approach, based largely on circumstantial evidence, what this 1975 second edition achieves is a factual reconstruction of events by records of the actual presence of individual species or genera, in large numbers, at particular sites and specified times through the geological and historic record.
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 1984
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521269414
- length: 580 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.91kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Prefaces
Part I: Introduction
Part II. Collection and Identification of Plant Remains:
1. General considerations
2. Seeds, fruits and leaves, etc.
3. Wood and charcoal
4. Pollen as an index of presence
Part III. The Background Scale of Pleistocene Events:
1. Glacial and interglacial periods
2. Radiocarbon dating
3. The Weichselian
4. Flandrian geological events
5. Climatic changes
6. Mire stratigraphy
7. Biological evidence
8. Archaeology
9. Pollen analysis
10. Primary divisions of the last fifteen thousand years
Part IV. Recorded Sites:
1. General comments
2. Scottish sites
3. Irish sites
4. Site record
Part V. The Plant Record:
1. Introduction: explanation of conventions
2. Collected records
Part VI. Pattern of Change in the British Flora:
1. Floristic chances in the Tertiary period
2. The Ice Age and the interglacial periods: climate, soil and vegetation
3. The early Pleistocene
4. The Cromer Forest bed series
5. The Corton interstadial and the Hocnian stage: middle Pleistocene
6. The Ipswichian interglacial
7. Galcial stages: early and middle Weichselian
8. Glacial stages: late Weichselian
9. Phytogeographic synopsis
10. Floristic history in the light of Weichselian records
11. The beginning of the Flandrian period: the pre-Boreal period
12. The early warm period: the Boreal period
13. The thermal maximum and the Atlantic period
14. Prehistoric husbandry and the sub-Boreal period
15. The sub-Atlantic period and climatic deterioration
16. Regional differentiation, migration and survival
Part VII: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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