Wytham Woods : Oxford's Ecological Laboratory
Peter. Savill
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (291 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 History of British woodland""; ""1.2 The forest returns""; ""1.3 A green mantle""; ""1.4 From forest to farmed landscape""; ""1.5 Brief history of Wytham""; ""1.6 The ffennels and Wytham""; ""1.7 The Woods today""; ""1.8 Conclusion""; ""2 The Physical Environment""; ""2.1 Location""; ""2.2 Topography""; ""2.3 Climate""; ""2.4 Geology and Soils""; ""2.5 Hydrology""; ""2.6 Pollution""; ""3 Woods ancient and modern�land use history""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 The early times"". - ""3.3 The landscape up to the late eighteenth century""""3.4 Exploiting the Woods""; ""3.5 The legacy of the fifth Earl of Abingdon""; ""3.6 Stasis and decline in the Woods""; ""3.7 The development of a research estate""; ""4 The Woods in the modern landscape""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Wytham in the context of Oxfordshire's woods""; ""4.3 Grassland""; ""4.4 Fens and other wetland""; ""4.5 Movement within the Woods and between the Woods and the surroundings""; ""4.6 Changes in the relationship between the Woods and its surroundings""; ""4.7 Conclusion"". - ""5 The Trees in the Woods 1945�2007""""5.1 Active forestry management 1945�1963""; ""5.2 Minimum intervention and 'near-natural' stand development""; ""5.3 Long-term studies of stand structure and composition""; ""5.4 Tree physiology""; ""5.5 Composition and structure of the shrub layer""; ""5.6 The changes in woodland structure and its possible causes""; ""5.7 Old growth and open space""; ""5.8 Twenty-first century changes""; ""6 The flowers of the forest""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.2 The Woods in a wider botanical context""; ""6.3 Vegetation patterns�soil and woodland history"". - ""6.4 The woodland flora and stand dynamics""""6.5 Other changes in the woodland flora 1974�1999""; ""6.6 Changes in Wytham Woods compared to trends elsewhere in the country""; ""6.7 Bramble as a key species""; ""6.8 Conclusions""; ""7 The ecology of Upper Seeds�an old-field succession experiment""; ""7.1 Introduction: patterns in space and dynamics""; ""7.2 Patterns in time: the nature of change""; ""7.3 The experimental system""; ""7.4 Colonization and species pools""; ""7.5 Early and mid successional communities during an English old-field succession"". - ""7.6 Invasion and decline of Arrhenatherum elatius (false oat-grass)""""7.7 How does the grassland on Upper Seeds compare with other grassland?""; ""7.8 Structure, plant taxonomy, and invertebrates""; ""7.9 Invertebrate movement between patches""; ""7.10 Conclusion""; ""8 Invertebrates""; ""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 Pioneers of ecology and ecological genetics""; ""8.3 The Wytham Ecological Survey""; ""8.4 Invertebrates, habitat specialisms, and landscape management""; ""8.5 Studies of cover and succession""; ""8.6 Understanding animal abundance and density"". - ""8.7 Stability of complex systems""
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| ISBN | 9780199543205
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