Woodlands

Name: Woodlands
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ISBN: 9780007202430

ISBN-10: 0007202431

ISBN-13: 9780007202430

Edition: 2006

Authors: Oliver Rackham

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The 100th volume of the prestigious New Naturalist series, written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, explores the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape'Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities...'This 100th volume of the New Naturalist series presents a landmark in natural history publishing. Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in buildings and ships, and how woodland has been portrayed in pictures and photographs, Rackham reconstructs British woodland through the ages.Aimed at the non-specialist, 'New Naturalist Woodlands' investigates what…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 6.13" wide x 8.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English



Stuart Max Walters 1920-2005



The constant spring : what trees and woods axe and how they behave



Some less familiar properties of trees : roots, partnerships, longevity, tree rings, sap-sucking, fire



Outline of woodland history



Pollen analysis and wildwood



Wildwood into woodland



Of wood-pasture and savanna



Archives of woodland and how to study them



Archaeology and land-forms of woodland and wood-pasture



Pictures and photographs



Woodland in the field : evidence of present soils, trees and vegetation



Uses of wood and timber : reconstructing the woods from buildings, hurdles and ships



Ancient-woodland plants and other creatures



Wild and planted trees



Some types of woodland : lowland zone



Some types of woodland : highland zone and Ireland



Caledonian pinewoods



Environment, pathology and ecology : damage, disease, defoliation



Modern forestry : its rise and fall



Modern forestry : its legacy - plantations as ecosystems



On investigating a wooded forest : blackmoor



Experiments and long-term observations



The recent past and the future