Vegetation history

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ancient permanent plots: Sampling in paleovegetational studies....Pages 3-16
Records of vegetation in time and space: the principles of pollen analysis....Pages 17-42
Data analysis and display....Pages 43-76
Time-scales and dating....Pages 77-112
Late-tertiary and quaternary palaeoenvironments....Pages 113-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Europe....Pages 155-192
North America....Pages 193-236
Australasia....Pages 237-306
South America....Pages 307-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Europe....Pages 341-383
Eastern North America....Pages 385-414
Western North America....Pages 415-458
Japan....Pages 459-518
The Arctic....Pages 519-555
New Zealand....Pages 557-599
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
Fire and disease history of forests....Pages 603-632
The rôle of man in European vegetation history....Pages 633-672
Human disturbance of North American forests and grasslands: The fossil pollen record....Pages 673-697
Post-glacial vegetation history: Ecological considerations....Pages 699-724
Spatially-precise studies of forest dynamics....Pages 725-751
Front Matter....Pages 601-601
Temporally-precise studies of vegetation history....Pages 753-777
Discussion....Pages 779-785
Back Matter....Pages 787-803