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Grazing Ecology and Forest History (Hardcover)
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Grazing Ecology and Forest History (Hardcover)
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It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed
forest systems covered the lowlands of Central and Western Europe
before humans intervened in prehistoric times to develop
agriculture. If this intervention had not taken place, it would
still be there and so if left, the grassland vegetation and fields
we see today would revert to its natural closed forest state,
although with a reduced number of wild species. This book
challenges this view, using examples from history, pollen analyses
and studies on the ecology of tree and shrub species such as oak
and hazel. It 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 consisting of grasslands, scrub,
solitary trees and groves bordered by a mantle and fringe
vegetation. Comparative information from North America is also
included, because the forests there are commonly regarded as being
analogous to the primeval vegetation in Europe. This title is a
revised, updated and expanded translation of book published in
Dutch.
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