An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

(^12) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england Oxford meadows, should have remained unnoticed by the various botanists wh ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^13 Roman empire, arriving in England by the third century. Remains have been found in a ...

(^14) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england were to be found next to, or even surrounding, mansions.^62 By this stage, ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^15 represented in the large assemblage excavated from early twelfth-century contexts at ...

(^16) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england of destruction by the coneys of the duke of Lancaster’s warren there’.^72 ...

seTTing T he sCene: The naTure of naTure^17 marked a peak in biodiversity. Some animals, it is true, had become extinct over the ...

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ChapTer TWo Seventeenth-century environments: Woodland and waste introduction England in the seventeenth century teemed with wil ...

(^20) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england Woodland There was relatively little woodland in seventeenth-century Engla ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 21 thinly scattered with trees and at the other dense and continuous stands ...

(^22) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england forests, in others they were becoming increasingly open ground, denuded by ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 23 Coppiced woods were and are important and diverse habitats – around 250 ...

(^24) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england woodland ‘specialists’, while their margins, and smaller woods, are occupi ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 25 or ling (Calluna vulgaris), bell heather (Erica cinera), gorse or furze ...

(^26) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england heaths were also regularly cut, for a variety of materials. Bracken and he ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 27 we see them today are not only far fewer in number, but also less varied ...

(^28) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england or salad burnet (Poterium sanguisorba).^42 Because the layers of acid sand ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 29 debris cannot fully decay in such permanently waterlogged ground and acc ...

(^30) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england Common pastures There was much permanent grassland in the seventeenth-cent ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 31 and Hertfordshire. Small areas survive on the Wolds of Lincolnshire and ...