The Changing Flora of Glasgow : : Urban and Rural Plants through the Centuries /

The Changing Flora of Glasgow : : Urban and Rural Plants through the Centuries / / J.H. Dickson, P. MacPherson.

Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural Hi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Dickson, J.H.,
MacPherson, P.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • List of Plates
  • Abbreviations
  • Dedication
  • PART 1 Background
  • 1.1 Area, Methods and Recorders
  • 1.2 Topography, Geology and Soils
  • 1.3 Climate
  • 1.4 Spreading of the City: Medieval Times to the Late Twentieth Century
  • 1.5 Pollution
  • PART 2 Catalogue of Past and Present Species
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • PART 3 Invasions, Extinctions and Present Patterns of Plants
  • 3.1 Sequence of Invasions
  • 3.2 Interpretations of the Patterns: City Lovers, City Haters and Neutrals
  • 3.3 Extinctions and the Causes
  • 3.4 Extinctions since the Recent Recording Began
  • PART 4 Special Features of the Flora and Conservation
  • 4.1 Comparisons with Other European Cities
  • 4.2 Implications for Conservation: Places
  • 4.3 Implications for Conservation: Species
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index

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