Woodlands

Name: Woodlands
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ISBN: 9780007202447

ISBN-10: 000720244X

ISBN-13: 9780007202447

Edition: 2006

Authors: Oliver Rackham

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This guide explores the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape. Reconstructing British woodland, it investigates what woods are and how they function. It describes the basic botany, and features an outline of woodland history, pollen analysis and wildwood.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.882
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