The history of the British flora. A factual basis for phytogeography

Abstract

Prefaces Part I: Introduction Part II. Collection and Identification of Plant Remains: 1. General considerations 2. Seeds, fruits and leaves, etc. 3. Wood and charcoal 4. Pollen as an index of presence Part III. The Background Scale of Pleistocene Events: 1. Glacial and interglacial periods 2. Radiocarbon dating 3. The Weichselian 4. Flandrian geological events 5. Climatic changes 6. Mire stratigraphy 7. Biological evidence 8. Archaeology 9. Pollen analysis 10. Primary divisions of the last fifteen thousand years Part IV. Recorded Sites: 1. General comments 2. Scottish sites 3. Irish sites 4. Site record Part V. The Plant Record: 1. Introduction: explanation of conventions 2. Collected records Part VI. Pattern of Change in the British Flora: 1. Floristic chances in the Tertiary period 2. The Ice Age and the interglacial periods: climate, soil and vegetation 3. The early Pleistocene 4. The Cromer Forest bed series 5. The Corton interstadial and the Hocnian stage: middle Pleistocene 6. The Ipswichian interglacial 7. Galcial stages: early and middle Weichselian 8. Glacial stages: late Weichselian 9. Phytogeographic synopsis 10. Floristic history in the light of Weichselian records 11. The beginning of the Flandrian period: the pre-Boreal period 12. The early warm period: the Boreal period 13. The thermal maximum and the Atlantic period 14. Prehistoric husbandry and the sub-Boreal period 15. The sub-Atlantic period and climatic deterioration 16. Regional differentiation, migration and survival Part VII: Conclusion Bibliography Index.