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The Changing Flora of Glasgow: Urban and Rural Plants Through the Centuries
J.H. Dickson
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Description for The Changing Flora of Glasgow: Urban and Rural Plants Through the Centuries
Hardback. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. Num Pages: 384 pages, 62 photos, 491 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1402.
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed sites of great scientific and conservation interest. ... Read more
Not since Lee's Flora of the Clyde Area (1933) has there been a Flora covering Glasgow. This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time. It is based on the results of some fifteen years' intensive research by members of the Glasgow Natural History Society and other field botanists working under the direction of Professor Jim Dickson, Dr Peter Macpherson and Keith Watson. The survey led to discoveries of many special plants, including some thought to be extinct, and revealed sites of great scientific and conservation interest. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748613977
SKU
V9780748613977
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99-50
Reviews for The Changing Flora of Glasgow: Urban and Rural Plants Through the Centuries
This beautifully illustrated local Flora is the culmination of 15 years' work...Professor Dickson is always happy to give his opinion on controversial matters and this makes this work all the more readable."
Douglas McKean Plentifully illustrated by black-and-white photographs and old maps and prints, also 23 colour plates of maps, habitats and individual plants ... A most thorough account, ... Read more
Douglas McKean Plentifully illustrated by black-and-white photographs and old maps and prints, also 23 colour plates of maps, habitats and individual plants ... A most thorough account, ... Read more