Ecological relations in historical times: human impact and adaptation

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Ecological relations in historical times - an introduction, N. Roberts and R.A. Butlin. Part 1 Scotland: the Machair vegetation of South Uist and Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland - its interacting ecological, geomorphic and historical dimensions, D.D. Gilbertson et al a lake-sediment record of changing land use intensity on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, J.A. Entwistle et al a Scottish broad - historical, stratigraphic and numerical studies associated with polleniferous deposits at Kilconquhar Loch, G. Whittington and K.J. Edwards a rising cloud of midges in the Scottish Highlands?, A. Roberts. Part 2 England and Wales: Medieval land use, agriculture and environmental change on Holy Island, Northumbria, K. Walsh et al a rough and cold country - farming and landscape changes in Northern Snowdonia since c.1600, M. Brayshay and A. Williams social, economic and environmental change in the fen and fen-edge region of East Cambridgeshire in the 19th century, R.A. Butlin woodland history and plant indicator species in North-East Yorkshire, England, R. Gulliver. Part 3 The North Atlantic region: Ancient Saami in Finnish Lapland and their impact on the forest vegetation, C. Carpelan and S. Hicks introductions, extinction or continuity? faunal change in the North Atlantic islands, J.P. Sadler and P. Skidmore by-pasing Ellis Island - insect immigration to North America, P. Buckland et al a question of Landnam - pollen, charcoal and insect studies on Papey, Eastern Iceland, P. Buckland et al. Part 4 North America and the Caribbean: ecological responses to ecosystem shock in the island Caribbean - the aftermath of Columbus, 1492-1992, D. Watts human impact on the wetlands of Belize, Central America, P. Furley et al invasion and transformation of California's valley grassland, a Mediterranean analogue system, M. Blumler. (Part contents)