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Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals : a European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes.
In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape - forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed. The book considers the history of grazed treed landscapes, of large grazing herbivores in Europe, and the implications of the past in shaping our en...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; List of illustrations; PART I Grazed treed landscapes; 1 Grazed treed landscapes: Overview and introduction; 2 Woodland and wood-pasture; PART II The lessons of history; 3 Woods, trees and animals: A perspective from South Yorkshire, England; 4 Re-wilding the landscape: Some observations on landscape history; 5 Rethinking pannage: Historical interactions between oak and swine; 6 The post-glacial history of grazing animals in Europe; PART III Landscape dynamics.
- 7 Reinterpreting wooded landscapes, shadow woods and the impacts of grazing8 The dynamics of pre-Neolithic European landscapes and their relevance to modern conservation; 9 Can't see the trees for the forest; 10 Ancient trees and wood-pastures: Observations on recent progress; 11 Grazed wood-pasture versus browsed high forests: Impact of ungulates on forest landscapes from the perspective of the Białowieża Primeval Forest; 12 The influence of grazing animals on tree regeneration and woodland dynamics in the New Forest, England.
- 13 Forest and land management options to prevent unwanted forest firesPART IV Case studies; 14 Grazing Refuge Habitats and their importance for woody plants in the west of Scotland; 15 Legacies of livestock grazing in the forest structure of Valonia oak landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean; 16 Palaeoecological records of woodland history during recent centuries of grazing and management examples from Glen Affric, Scotland and Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire; 17 Integrated conservation of a park and its associated cattle herd: Chillingham Park, northern England.
- PART V Conservation, management and wildscapes18 The impacts of the reintroduction of wild boar in the Forest of Dean, Great Britain; 19 Wild cattle and the 'wilder valley' experiences: The introduction of extensive grazing with Galloway cattle in the Ennerdale Valley, England; 20 Treescape: Trees, animals, landscape, people and 'treetime'; 21 Creation of open woodlands through pasture: Genesis, relevance as biotopes, value in the landscape and in nature conservation in south-west Germany.
- 22 Woodland grazing with cattle: Results from 25 years of grazing in acidophilus pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) woodland23 Ancient trees, grazing landscapes and the conservation of deadwood and wood decay invertebrates; 24 The future potential of wood-pastures; 25 A strategic view of the issues for wood-pasture and parkland conservation in England; PART VI Summary and conclusions; 26 Re-wilding trees for ancients of the future; 27 Summary and conclusions; Index.