Woodland decline in upland scotland

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-93

  Bennett, K D ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic pressures; Climatic change; Holocene palaeoecology; Natural woodland loss; Open landscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958155412     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550870902984784     Document Type: Article

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