The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland: overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

RM Fyfe, C Twiddle, S Sugita, MJ Gaillard… - Quaternary Science …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The vegetation of Europe has undergone substantial changes during the course of the
Holocene epoch, resulting from range expansion of plants following climate amelioration …

The Tilia decline: vegetation change in lowland Britain during the mid and late Holocene

MJ Grant, MP Waller, JA Groves - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Pollen data indicate Tilia was an important component of the primary woodland cover of
many lowland areas in northern and central Europe. High values recorded in mid-Holocene …

Modern pollen studies from coppiced woodlands and their implications for the detection of woodland management in Holocene pollen records

M Waller, MJ Grant, MJ Bunting - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Investigations of pollen production, modern pollen–vegetation relationships and pollen‐
stratigraphic changes have been undertaken from three woodlands under coppice …

Long-term development of a cultural landscape: the origins and dynamics of lowland heathland in southern England

JA Groves, MP Waller, MJ Grant… - Vegetation History and …, 2012‏ - Springer
The lowland heathlands of southern England comprise ca. 14% of the total area of this
habitat in Europe yet their history is poorly understood. This paper presents the first detailed …

[HTML][HTML] Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites

RM Briant, CA Whiteman, BA Haggart… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Southern England contains a wealth of sites, reviewed here, that contain evidence for past
deposition in freshwater environments over a period of over 0.5 million years and have been …

An introduction to the Quaternary of southern England Geological Conservation Review sites

RM Briant, CA Whiteman, BA Haggart - Proceedings of the Geologists' …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This paper introduces four detailed papers describing geological conservation review (GCR)
sites that were chosen to represent the full range of depositional environments and climatic …

Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th-to mid-12th-century rural landscape

O Creighton, S Rippon - The Archaeology of the 11th Century, 2017‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers archaeological evidence for the impact of the Norman Conquest on
the rural landscape. It explores the imposition of a new land-owning aristocracy and the …

Pollen-analytical perspectives on the end of Roman Britain

P Dark - Environmental Archaeology, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Pollen analysis is increasingly being used to investigate the landscape context of the end of
Roman Britain, and specifically the extent to which there was continuity or change in land …

Palaeoecological, archaeological and historical data and the making of D evon landscapes. I. T he B lackdown H ills

AG Brown, C Hawkins, L Ryder, S Hawken, F Griffith… - Boreas, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first systematic study of the vegetation history of a range of low hills
in SW E ngland, UK, lying between more researched fenlands and uplands. After the …

Examining change in complex social-ecological systems using multiple long-term records: the New Forest–a case study

SJ Pogue, JA Dearing, ME Edwards… - WIT Transactions on The …, 2015‏ - witpress.com
Social-ecological systems (SES) are complex, dynamic systems with strong
interdependencies between their ecological components and the social actors that depend …