CABI. 2000. 506pp, b & w photos. Very influential study which sets out to challenge the view 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, testing the possibility that species composition and succession of vegetation were governed by large herbivores, producing a park-like landscape of grasslands, scrub, solitary trees and groves, bordered by a mantle and fringe vegetation. Laminated hardback..
Publisher: - CABI publishing - more
Code: - ISBN: 9780851994420
Year: - 2000
Authors: - FWM Vera