Wytham Woods: Oxford's Ecological Laboratory by Peter Savill,Christopher Perrins,Keith Kirby,Nigel Fisher

By Peter Savill,Christopher Perrins,Keith Kirby,Nigel Fisher

For the 1st time, this publication tells the Wytham tale in a manner that's obtainable to either scientist and normal reader alike. It offers a desirable assessment of what the Woods are like, their historical past, composition (both plant and animal), and the way their flora and fauna has replaced over time.

This iconic place has been the topic of a sequence of constant ecological learn programmes relationship again to the Nineteen Twenties, a degree of continuity of analysis attempt that's super infrequent. consequently there's a powerful emphasis at the value of the clinical study that has been performed there and the way this has contributed to ecological pondering elsewhere.

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