Grazing ecology and forest history /

• Main Author: Vera, F. W. M., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Forest dynamics > Europe.; Plant succession > Europe.; Range ecology > Europe.; Forests and forestry > History. > Europe; History and Biography.; Palaeontology and Archaeology.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees: Community, Farm and Social Forestry.; Land Resources.; Grasslands and Rangelands.; Biological Resources (General); Biological Resources (Plant); Plant Ecology.; Animal Ecology.; Plants.; Agriculture.; Botanical composition.; Climax communities.; Forest ecology.; Forests.; Grasslands.; Grazing.; Herbivores.; History.; Land use.; Landscape ecology.; Light.; Lowland areas.; Natural grasslands.; Nature reserves.; Palaeoecology.; Palynology.; Parks.; Plant ecology.; Plant succession.; Pollen analysis.; Reserved forests.; Scrub.; Shrubs.; Stand establishment.; Synecology.; Trees.; Vegetation types.; Wilderness.; Woody plants.; Electronic books.
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It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed forest systems covered the lowlands of Central and Western Europe before man intervened in prehistoric times to develop agriculture. If this intervention had not taken place, the forest would still be there, and if left the grassland vege...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction and Formulation of the Problem
• Succession, the Climax Forest and the Role of Large Herbivores
• Palynology, the Forest as Climax in Prehistoric Times and the Effects of Humans
• The Use of the Wilderness from the Middle Ages up to 1900
• Spontaneous Succession in Forest Reserves in the Lowlands of Western and Central Europe
• Establishment of Trees and Shrubs in Relation to Light and Grazing
• Final Synthesis and Conclusions.