Download or read book Late Holocene Vegetation History and Land use at Sells Burn Northern England written by James Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Late Holocene Vegetation and Cultural Land use History in the Uplands of N Portugal written by Carla Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Late Holocene History of Vegetation Fire and Climate from a Desert Wetland in Southwest North America written by Shawn D. Blissett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Spatial Resolution Holocene Vegetation and Land use History in West Glen Affric and Kintail Northern Scotland written by Althea Lynn Davies and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holocene Vegetation History and Land Use in Northern Bohusl n County South western Sweden written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holocene Vegetation Hydrology and Fire in the North Central Adirondacks of New York written by Katharine A. LeBoeuf and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adirondack region of New York has an estimated 81,000 hectares of old-growth forest embedded in a matrix of wetlands and second-growth forest. Few paleoecological records exist in the region, although records from adjacent regions indicate that there were several times of abrupt vegetation change during the mid and late Holocene, and the causes of these events are poorly understood. To better understand how Adirondack forests have responded to past changes in climate and disturbance regimes, I developed coupled records of Holocene fire, forest vegetation, and moisture variability using the sediments of Bloomingdale Bog in northern New York. My primary objectives were to 1) develop a high resolution Holocene record of forest vegetation, drought, and fire for the region, and 2) assess the potential causes of abrupt regional forest vegetation change at 500-600 and 5000 years BP. Consistent with other areas of the Northeast, results indicate that the two largest changes in forest vegetation, prior to land clearance, occurred ~550 and 5000 years BP. Comparison of drought, fire, and vegetation records revealed that vegetation changes at 550 year BP were likely driven by drought and fire. The decline of mesic species like Fagus grandifolia was widespread at this time as pollen records from elsewhere in the Northeast also document similar changes. Post-fire succession did not return the forest to its previous structure, and the compositional changes persisted until European land clearance. Vegetation changes 5000 years ago were characterized by the well-documented, range-wide decline in Tsuga canadensis (hemlock) in eastern North America. Comparison of drought, fire, and vegetation records revealed that the decline of hemlock was well underway prior to the occurrence of a large drought, and fires occurred shortly after the vegetation change and drought. Patterns are not consistent with drought as the sole or initial cause for the hemlock decline, and suggest that a pathogen or some other factor was responsible for the decline; however, drought may have suppressed recovery of hemlock populations after their abrupt decline. Fire and drought have not been primary drivers of large-scale forest change during the past century in the Adirondacks, and the long-term perspectives provided by this study highlight the potential vulnerability of the region to future changes in drought and disturbance regimes.
Download or read book Analysis of Late Holocene Wood Pleistocene Pollen Deposits Land Survey Records and Related Current Vegetation from the Four Mile Creek East Oxford Ohio Area written by Donald E. Trisel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elk Lake Minnesota Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North Central United States written by J. Piatt Bradbury and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers regarding conditions found in Elk Lake, Minnesota being evidence for rapid climate change in the north-central United States. Among the topics: the chronology of Elk Lake sediments, climate and limnological settings, and deposition of calcium carbonate. Annotation copyright Book News
Download or read book A high resolution pollen and geochemical analysis of late Holocene human impact and vegetation history in Southern Cumbria England written by P.M.V. Coombes and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alluvial Archaeology in Britain written by Stuart Needham and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty four papers from a conference on 'archaeology and the river environment' held at the British Museum in 1991. Contributors include: I K Bailiff (luminescence dating of alluvial deposits); A J Clark (magnetic dating of alluvial deposits; archaeological prospecting on alluvium); J G Evans/P Davies/R Mount/D Williams (molluscan taxocenes from Holocene overbank alluvium in southern England); B Coles (impact of beaver on temperate landscapes); J Lewin (alluvial sedimentation style in the Lower Vyrnwy, Wales); R Tipping (generation of major prehistoric valley fills in the Cheviot Hills); J Dinn/R Roseff (alluvium and archaeology in the Herefordshire valleys); C R Salisbury (evidence for palaeochannels in the Trent valley); P Clay (a Norman mill dam at Hemmington fields, Leicestershire); A G Brown/M K Keough (the geoarchaeological potential of some Midland floodplains); J J Wymer (Palaeoliths in alluvium); S needham (Holocene alluviation and interstratified settlement in the Thames valley); M Bell (archaeology under alluvium).
Download or read book Late Glacial and Holocene History of Vegetation in Poland Based on Isopollen Maps written by Magdalena Ralska-Jasiewiczowa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vegetation of Poland written by Władysław Szafer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology, Volume 9: The Vegetation of Poland focuses on the plant geography of Poland, including climate, hydrography, geology, and ecology. The selection first offers information on the historical outline of the development of plant geography and the factors affecting the geographical distribution of plants in Poland. Discussions focus on the development of phytogeographical cartography, floristic and ecological plant geography, and the climate, boundaries, land-relief, hydrography, and geology of Poland. The text then ponders on the influence of man and his economic activities on the vegetation of Poland and the floristic statistics and the elements of the Polish flora. The publication examines the terrestrial and fresh-water plant communities and vegetation of the Polish Baltic. Topics include composition and structure of plant communities and methods of their study, associations of coastal and inland dunes, aquatic and swamp associations, and the most important representatives of the benthic flora of the Polish Baltic. The manuscript is a dependable source of data for botanists and those concerned with the plant resources of nature, including agriculturists, horticulturists, and soil scientists.
Download or read book Quaternary Dating Methods written by Mike Walker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory textbook introduces the basics of dating, the range of techniques available and the strengths and limitations of each of the principal methods. Coverage includes: the concept of time in Quaternary Science and related fields the history of dating from lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy the development and application of radiometric methods different methods in dating: radiometric dating, incremental dating, relative dating and age equivalence Presented in a clear and straightforward manner with the minimum of technical detail, this text is a great introduction for both students and practitioners in the Earth, Environmental and Archaeological Sciences. Praise from the reviews: "This book is a must for any Quaternary scientist." SOUTH AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, September 2006 “...very well organized, clearly and straightforwardly written and provides a good overview on the wide field of Quaternary dating methods...” JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, January 2007
Download or read book Neotropical Savannas and Seasonally Dry Forests written by R. Toby Pennington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More often than not, when people think of a neotropical forest, what comes to mind is a rain forest, rather than a dry forest. Just as typically, when they imagine a savanna, they visualize the African plains, rather than those dry woodlands and grasslands found in the Neotropics. These same preconceptions can be found among scientists, as these ne
Download or read book Europe s Lost World written by Vincent L. Gaffney and published by Council for British Archaeology. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent book, which deserves a wide readership, reports on the work of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which has been researching the fascinating lost landscape of Doggerland which until the end of the last Ice Age connected Britain to the continent in the North Sea area. It aims to make the findings available to a general readership, and show just how impressive they have been, with nearly 23,000km2 mapped. The techniques used to reconstruct the landscape are explained, and conclusions and speculation about the climate and vegetation of the area in the Mesolithic offered. It also tells the story of the rediscovery of Doggerland, and the Mesolithic landscape more generally, from the pioneering work of Clement Reid in the nineteenth century, to the research of Grahame Clark and Bryony Coles in the twentieth. It's also worth pointing out just how well produced and illustrated the book is, and one can only hope that it can spark public interest in a comparatively little known phase of our prehistory.
Download or read book The Miombo in Transition written by Bruce Morgan Campbell and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miombo woodlands and their use: overview and key issues. The ecology of miombo woodlands. Population biology of miombo tree. Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences. Rural households and miombo woodlands: use, value and management. Trade in woodland products from the miombo region. Managing miombo woodland. Institutional arrangements governing the use and the management of miombo woodlands. Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods: options and opportunities.
Download or read book Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics written by Jürgen Runge and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the relaunch of the African Pollen Database, presents state-of-the-art of modern and ancient pollen data from sub-Saharan Africa, and promotes Open Access science. Pollen grains are powerful tools for the study of past vegetation dynamics because they preserve well within sedimentary deposits and have a huge diversity in ornamentation that allows different taxa to be determined. The reconstruction of past vegetation from the examination of ancient pollen records thus can be used to characterize the nature of past landscapes (e.g. abundance of forests vs. grasslands), provide insights into changes in biodiversity, and gain empirical evidence of vegetation response to climatic change and human activity. In this, the 35th Volume of "Palaeoecology of Africa", we bring together new data and extensive synthetic reviews to provide novel insights into the relationships between human evolution, human activity, climate change and vegetation dynamics during the Quaternary, the last 2.6 million years. Current and ongoing climate and land-use change is exerting pressure on modern vegetation formations and threatening the livelihoods and wellbeing of many peoples in Africa. In this book the focus is on the Quaternary because it is during this geological period that the modern vegetation formations developed into their current configurations against a backdrop of high magnitude global climate change (glacial-interglacial cycles), human evolution, and a growing human land-use footprint. In this book the latest information is presented and collated from around the African continent to parameterize past vegetation states, identify the drivers of vegetation change, and assess the vegetation resilience to change. To achieve this research from two broad themes are covered: (i) the present is the key to the past (i.e. studies which improve our understanding of modern environments so that we can better interpret evidence from the past), and (ii) the past is the key to the future (i.e. studies which unlock information on how and why vegetation changed in the past so one can better anticipate trajectories of future change). This Open Access book will provide a strong foundation for future research exploring past ecological, environmental and climatic change within Africa and the surrounding islands. The book is organized regionally (covering western, eastern, central, and southern Africa) and it contains specialized articles focused on particular topics (such as modern pollen-vegetation relationships and fire as a driver of vegetation change), as well as regional and pan-African syntheses drawing together decades of research to assess key scientific questions (including the role of climate in driving vegetation change and the role of vegetation change in human evolution). These articles will be useful to students and teachers from high school to the highest level of university who are interested in the origins and dynamics of vegetation in Africa. Furthermore, it is also meant to provide societally relevant information that can act as an inspiration for the development of sustainable management practices for the future.
