The role of ancient woodlands in conserving ‘undisturbed’ soils in Britain. Biol. Conserv. 19: 163–176.Ball, D.F., Stevens, P.A., 1981. The role of ancient woodlands in conserving undisturbed soils in Britain. Biol. Conserv. 19, 163± 176....
Dr Oliver Rackham was a botanist and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and pasture. THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE won the 1986 Angel Literary Award, the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Prize and the Natural...
Book Review: A history of the native woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920 Summary 1 The Vera hypothesis that large herbivores maintained an open landscape in the primeval landscape of lowland Europe is tested using palaeoecological data. The hypothesis suggests that the high abundance of Quercus and Co...
Domestication of citrus species in various parts of the world. Sweet Oranges by Stephen Hui. 4500 BCEEvidence of managed woodlands in Britain. 4000 BCE"As in the case of the cereals, the legumes are amongst the oldest crops cultivated by the human race. Between the cereals and legumes there...
Migration was embraced as a general phenomenon by cultural historical archaeologists in the Eastern Woodlands, subsequently rejected by processualists, and recently invoked again with greater frequency due to advances in both method and theory. However, challenges remain in regard to establishing temporal...
it is one part of the Munro Mountains, and, being the most southerly of the lot, it does make it easily accessible from Glasgow, among other central areas. “Flanked by beautiful ancient woodlands, it offers everything, including the first of your 3,000ft peaks for those Munro baggers out...
so that the history of ancient Egypt was a closed book. But Napoleon had the inscription copied and sent to the learned societies of Europe. The Greek, was of course, easy for the scholars to translate and the equivalents of such names as Alexander, Alexandria, and Ptolemy helped to solve...
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Thus, it is disappointing to find the whole of south-east Asia treated in one short chapter by R. Sewandano, of the Netherlands, formerly of Batavia. The brief section on Burma scarcely does justice to the long complex history of forest management extending over more than a century in that...
This magnificent region has many ties to the land. From rewilding projects to conservation of endangered species, witness a committed people in spectacular scenery.