Author: Helen Elizabeth Fitz Randolph
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Timber and Underwood Industries and Some Village Workshops
Author: Helen Elizabeth Fitz Randolph
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Home and Country
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Osier-growing and Basketry and Some Rural Factories
Author: Helen Elizabeth Fitz Randolph
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Category : Basket making
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Basket making
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Timber and underwood industries and some village workshops
Author: Helen E. Fitz Randolph
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Languages : en
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Woodland Conservation and Management
Author: G. F. Peterken
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
The Periodical
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Woodland Conservation and Management
Author: George Peterken
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400948549
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted as a stage on the way to something' , he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400948549
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted as a stage on the way to something' , he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Quarterly Journal of Forestry
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Rural Industries of England & Wales
Author: Helen Elizabeth FitzRandolph
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Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Traditional Country Craftsmen
Author: J. Geraint Jenkins
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620251
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Traditional Country Craftsmen provides an essential insight into a wide range of country crafts and skills.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445620251
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Traditional Country Craftsmen provides an essential insight into a wide range of country crafts and skills.