Ecological History of European Forests

Keith Kirby teaches at Oxford University. Charles Watkins is with the School of Geography, University of Nottingham.

1: Introduction - Historical Ecology and European Woodland, K Kirby and C Watkins 2: Savanna in Europe, O Rackham 3: Development and Dynamics of Agricultural Parks in West Africa, H J Sturm, J Wolfgang 4: Pollard Meadows: Multiple Use of Human-Made Nature, C-A Hæggström 5: The Production of Fodder Trees in Valdagno, Vicenza, Italy, E Bargioni and S A Zanzi 6: Wood Pasture in Dutch Common Woodlands and the Deforestation of the Dutch Landscape, J Dirkx 7: Persistent Outcomes of Coppice Grazing in Rockingham Forest, Northamptonshire, UK, J A Best 8: The Links Between Forest History and Biodiversity: The Invertebrate Fauna of Ancient Pasture Woodlands in the British Isles and its Conservation, K Alexander 9: Interactions Between Humans and Woodland in Prehistoric and Medieval Drenthe (The Netherlands): An Interdisciplinary Approach, T Spek 10: Forest History of the Dutch Province of Drenthe and its Ancient Woodlands: a survey, J van Laar 11: Ecology and History of a Wooded Landscape in Southern Spain, T Marañon, V Jurado and J F Ojeda 12: Landscape Evolution on a Central Tuscan Estate Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries, M Agnoletti and M Paci 13: An Insight into Past Climate via a Fossil Tree, M Inan 14: What Were Woods Like in the Seventeenth Century? Examples from the Helmsley Estate, North-east Yorkshire, UK, R Gulliver 15: Manx Woodland History and Vegetation, R Bohan 16: The History of the Coniston Woodlands, Cumbria, UK, S Barker 17: Historical Ecology and Post-medieval Management Practices in Alderwood (Alnus incana (L.) Moench) in the Northern Apennines, Italy, S Bertolotto, R Cevasco, D Moreno, G Poggi 18: Habitat Alterations Caused by Long Term Changes in Forest Use in North Eastern Switzerland, M Bürgi 19: The Investigation of Long-term Successions in Temperate Woodland Using Fine Spatial Resolution Pollen Analysis, F Mitchell 20: Ecological Changes in Bernwood Forest - Woodland Management During the Present Millennium, R Thomas 21: Interpreting Present Vegetation Features by Landscape Historical Data: An Example from a Woodland Grassland Mosaic Landscape (Nagykoros Wood, Kiskunság, Hungary), Z Molnár and M Biró 22: Researching Forest History to Underpin the Classification of Dutch Forest Ecosystems, R Wolf 23: Historical Ecology of Woodlands in Flanders, G Tack 24: Occurrence of Woodland Herbs in an Area Poor in Woodlands: NW-Zealand, Denmark, P M Petersen 25: Distribution of Ancient Woodlands, Afforestations and Clearances in Relation to Quaternary Deposits and Soil Types in North Western Brandenburg (Germany) M Wulf 26: Opportunities to Protect the Biodiversity of Ancient Woodland, S-A Bailey, R Haines-Young and C Watkins 27: The Ancient Woodland Inventory in England and its Uses, K Kirby, C Reid and R Thomas