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Grazing ecology and forest history

Tests the hypotheses that the climax vegetation is a closed canopy forest against the alternative one in which species composition and succession of vegetation were governed by herbivores and that the Central and Western European lowlands were covered by a park-like landscape bordered by a mantle and fringe vegetation.
eBook, English, ©2000
CABI Pub., Wallingford, Oxon, ©2000
History
1 online resource (xix, 506 pages) : illustrations
9781845933067, 9781280811906, 1845933060, 1280811900
209700462
About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 General Introduction and Formulation of the Problem; 2 Succession, the Climax Forest and the Role of Large Herbivores; 3 Palynology, the Forest as Climax in Prehistoric Times and the Effects of Humans; 4 The Use of the Wilderness from the Middle Ages up to 1900; 5 Spontaneous Succession in Forest Reserves in the Lowlands of Western and Central Europe; 6 Establishment of Trees and Shrubs in Relation to Light and Grazing; 7 Final Synthesis and Conclusions; Appendix 1 Structuring the Use of the Wilderness