TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vera,F.W.M.
TI  - Grazing ecology and forest history
T2  - CABI Books
SN  - 9781845933067
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Wallingford           UK
PB  - CABI Publishing
KW  - land use
KW  - natural grasslands
KW  - scrub
KW  - European Union Countries
KW  - Europe
KW  - trees
KW  - reserved forests
KW  - grazing
KW  - palynology
KW  - palaeoecology
KW  - paleoecology
KW  - Northern Europe
KW  - Nordic Countries
KW  - woody plants
KW  - wilderness
KW  - plant ecology
KW  - Slovenia
KW  - Southern Europe
KW  - natural pastures
KW  - eukaryotes
KW  - Western Europe
KW  - USA
KW  - temperate forests
KW  - agriculture
KW  - Balkans
KW  - history
KW  - France
KW  - herbivores
KW  - shrubs
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - plants
KW  - Developed Countries
KW  - plant succession
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - landscape ecology
KW  - forest ecology
KW  - climax communities
KW  - America
KW  - North America
KW  - parks
KW  - APEC countries
KW  - Central Europe
KW  - Austria
KW  - synecology
KW  - stand establishment
KW  - pollen analysis
KW  - grasslands
KW  - United States of America
KW  - nature reserves
KW  - Germany
KW  - Sweden
KW  - lowland areas
KW  - light
KW  - vegetation types
KW  - forests
KW  - OECD Countries
KW  - botanical composition
KW  - Poland
N2  - 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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