Author: M O. HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The vegetation of upland Britain
Author: M O. HillAn Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation
Author: Alison AverisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781784270155
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first comprehensive, single book on plant communities in the British uplands, providing concise descriptions of all currently recognised British upland vegetation types. The book brings together all of the upland communities described in the National Vegetation Classification.
An Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation
Author: Alison AverisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Focuses on plant communities in the British uplands, bringing together the upland communities described in the National Vegetation Classification, together with several assemblages of plant species. A key enables the user to classify vegetation in the field and distribution maps provide many localities for communities.
Upland Britain
Author: Margaret AtherdenPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719034930
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A plea for the conservation of areas in Great Britain: not only those that preserve ecologies going back to the end of the Ice Age, but also some that, while resulting from human intervention, have become traditional. Explains the evolution and the current state of the landscape and the flora and fauna. Well illustrated. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Classification of Upland Vegetation Types in Britain
Author: D. A. RatcliffeTypes of British Vegetation
Author: Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British VegetationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Upland Habitats
Author: Alan F. FieldingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134677782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bogs, montane and sub-montane forests. The book examines the unique characteristics of uplands and the ecological processes and historical events that have shaped them since the end of the last glaciaton. Among the key conservation and management issues explored in are: * modern agricultural practices and economics * habitat degradation through overgrazing * commercial forest plantations * the persecution of wildlife * recreation in the uplands * the funding of upland farming.
The British Islands and Their Vegetation
Author: Types of British Vegetation, by Members of the Central Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation
Author: Sir Arthur George TansleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Plants and Habitats
Author: Ben AverisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957608108
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Combines the species and habitat approaches to plants and vegetation. This book features 700 plant species that are selected as those which are common, conspicuous or useful ecological indicators; species which collectively make up most of the vegetation in Britain and Ireland.