Peatlands as scientific archives of past biodiversity

Aaby B. (1976) Cyclic climatic variations in climate over the past 5500 years reflected in raised bogs. Nature 263, 281?4.

Aaby B. and Tauber H. (1974) Rates of peat formation in relation to degree of humification and local environment, as shown by studies of a raised bog in Denmark. Boreas 4, 1?17.

Backeus I. (1991) The cyclic regeneration on bogs?a hypothesis that became an established truth. Striae 31, 33?5.

Baillie M.G.L. and Munro M.A.R. (1988) Irish tree rings, Santorini and volcanic dust veils. Nature 332, 344?6.

Barber K.E. (1981) Peat Stratigraphy and Climatic Change: a Palaeoecological Test of the Theory of Cyclic Peat Bog Regoneration. Rotterdam: Balkema.

Barber K.E. (1982) Peat-bog stratigraphy as a proxy climate record. In Climatic Change in Later Prehistory (A.F.Harding, ed.), pp. 103?13. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Barber K.E. (1985) Peat stratigraphy and climatic change: some speculations. In The Climatic Scene (M.J.Tooley, and G.M.Sheail, eds), pp. 175?85. London: Allen & Unwin.

Barber K.E. and Twigger S.N. (1987) Late Quaternary palaeoecology of the Severn Basin. In Palaeohydrology in Practice (K.J.Oregory, J.Lewia and J.B.Thornes, eds), pp. 217?51. Chichester: Wiley and Sons.

Barber K.E., Dumayne L. and Stoneman R.E. (1993) Climatic change and human impact during the late Holocene in northern Britain. In Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape (F.M.Chambers, ed.), pp. 225?36. London: Chapman & Hall.

Barkham J.P. (1993) For peat's sake: conservation or exploitation. Biodiv. Conserv. 2, 556?66.

Birks H.H., Birks H.J.B., Kaland P.E. and Moe D., eds (1988) The Cultural Landscape?Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Birks H.J.B. and Birks H.H. (1980) Quaternary Palaeoecology. London: Arnold.

Blackford J.J. (1993) Peat bogs as sources of proxy climatic data: past approaches and future research. In Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape (F.M.Chambers, ed.) pp. 47?56. London: Chapman & Hall.

Blackford J.J. and Chambers F.M. (1991) Proxy records of climate from blanket mires: evidence for a Dark-Age (1400 BP) climatic deterioration in the British Isles. Holocene 1, 63?7.

Blackford J.J., Edwards K.J., Dugmore A.J., Cook G.T. and Buckland P.C. (1992) Icelandic volcanic ash and the mid-Holocene Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) pollen decline in northern Scotland. Holocene 2, 260?5.

Boatman D.J. (1983) The Silver Flow National Nature Reserve, Galloway, Scotland. J. Biogeog. 10, 163?274.

Bradshaw R.H.W. (1988) Spatially precise studies of forest dynamics. In Vegetation History (B.Huntley and T.Webb, eds) pp. 725?51. Handbook of Vegetation Science 7, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bradshaw R. (1991) Spatial scale in the pollen record. In Modelling Ecological Change: Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology (D.R.Harris and K.D.Thomas, eds), pp. 41?52. London: Institute of Archaeology.

Brown A.G. and Barber K.E. (1985) Late Holocene palaeoecology and sedimentary history of a small lowland catchment in central England. Quat. Res. 24, 87?102.

Casparie W.A. (1969) Bult-und Schlenkenbildung in Hochmoortorf: (zur Frage des Moorwachstums-Mechanismus). Vegetatio 19, 146?80.

Chambers F.M., ed. (1993) Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape. London: Chapman & Hall.

Charman, D.J. (1990) Origins and development of the Flow Country blanket mire, northern Scotland, with particular reference to patterned fens. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Clarke, M.J. (1988) Past and present mire communities of the New Forest and their conservation. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Clymo R.S. (1983) Peat. In Ecosystems of the World. 4A. Mires: Swamp, Bog, Fen and Moor (A.J.P.Gore, ed.), pp. 159?224. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Clymo R.S. (1991) Peat growth. In Quaternary Landscapes (L.C.K.Shane and E.J.Cushing, eds), pp. 76?112. London: Belhaven Press.

Clymo R.S. and Hayward P.M. (1982) The ecology of Sphagnum. In Bryophyte Ecology (A.J.E.Smith, ed.), pp. 229?91. London: Chapman & Hall.

Deevey E.S. (1969) Coaxing history to conduct experiments. Bioscience 19, 40?3.

Dickson J.H. (1973) Bryophytes of the Pleistocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Doyle G.J., ed. (1990) Ecology and Conservation of Irish Peatlands. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

Dugmore A.J. (1989) Icelandic volcanic ash in Scotland. Scot. Geog. Mag. 105, 168?72.

Dumayne, L. (1992) Late Holocene palaeoecology and human impact on the environment of Northern Britain. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Dumayne L. (1993) Invader or native? ? vegetation clearance in northern Britain during Romano-British time. Veg. Hist. Archaeobot. 2, 29?36.

Dupont, L.M. (1985) Temperature and rainfall variation in raised ecosystem: a palaeoecological and isotope-geological study. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam.

Edwards K.J. (1979) Palynological and temporal inference in the context of prehistory, with special reference to the evidence from lake and peat deposits. J. Archaeol. Sci. 6, 255?70.

Edwards K.J. (1991) Using space in cultural palynology: The value of the off-site pollen record. In Modelling Ecological Change: Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Archaeology (D.R.Harris and K.D.Thomas, eds), pp. 61?73. London: Institute of Archaeology.

Foster D.R., Wright H.E., Thelaus M. and King G. A. (1988). Bog development and landform dynamics in central Sweden and south-eastern Labrador, Canada. J. Ecol. 76, 1164?85.

Garbett G.G. (1981) The elm decline: the depletion of a resource. New Phytol. 88, 573?85.

Godwin H. (1975) History of the British Flora, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Godwin H. (1981) The Archives of the Peat Bogs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gore A.J.P., ed. (1983) Ecosystems of the World. 4A. Mires: Swamp, Bog, Fen and Moor. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Haslam, C. (1987) Late Holocene peat stratigraphy and climatic change-a macrofossil investigation from the raised mires of north-western Europe. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Huntley B. (1990) European vegetation history: palaeovegetation maps from pollen data-13 000 years BP to present. J. Quat. Sci. 5, 103?22.

Huntley B. and Birks H.J.B. (1983) An Atlas of Past and Present Pollen Maps for Europe 0?13 000 Years Ago. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ingram H.A.P. (1978) Soil layers in mires: function and terminology. J. Soil Sci. 29, 224?7.

Lamb H.H. (1977) Climate: Past, Present and Future, volume 2. London: Methuen.

Lambert J.M., Jennings J.N., Smith C.T., Green C. and Hutchinson J.N. (1960) The making of the Broads. Roy. Geograph. Soc. Res. Series 3, 1?153.

Lindsay R. (1993) Peatland conservation ? from cinders to Cinderella. Biodiv. Conserv. 2, 528?40.

Moore P.D. (1984) European Mires. London: Academic Press.

Moore P.D. and Bellamy D.J. (1974) Peatlands. London: Paul Elek.

Oldfield F. (1963) Pollen analysis and man's role in the ecological history of the southeast Lake District. Geograf. Ann. 45, 23?40.

Oldfield F. (1969) Pollen analysis and the history of land-use. Advan. Sci. 25, 298?311.

Oldfield F. (1970) The ecological history of Blelham Bog National Nature Reserve. In Studies in the Vegetational History Of The British Isles (D.Walker and R.G.West, eds), pp. 141?57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Oldfield F. (1977) Lakes and their drainage basins as units of sediment-based ecological study. Prog. Phys. Geog. 1, 460?504.

Oldfield F. (1993) Forward to the past: changing approaches to Quaternary palaeoecology. In Climate Change and Human Impact in the Landscape (F.M.Chambers, ed.), pp. 13?21. London: Chapman & Hall.

Oldfield F., Appleby P.G., Cambray R.S., Eakins J.D., Barber K.E., Battarbee R.W., Pearson G.W. and Williams J.M. (1979) 210Pb 137Cs and 239Pu profiles in ombrotrophic peat. Oikos 33, 40?5.

Oldfield F., Thompson R. and Barber K.E. (1978) Changing fallout of magnetic particles recorded in recent ombrotrophic peat sections. Science 199, 679?80.

Overbeck F. (1975) Botanische-Geologische Moorkunde. Neumunster: Karl Wacholtz.

Parker R.E. (1990) Peatland conservation in Northern Ireland. In Ecology and Conservation of Irish Peatlands (G.J.Doyle, ed.), pp. 189?98. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

Pearce F. (1992) The battle for Britain's bogs. New Sci. 136, 12?3.

Peglar S.M. (1993) The mid-Holocene Ulmus decline at Diss Mere, Norfolk, UK: a year-by-year pollen stratigraphy from annual laminations. Holocene 3, 1?13.

Pilcher J.R. (1993) Radiocarbon dating and the palynologist: a realistic approach to precision and accuracy. In Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape (F.M.Chambers, ed.), pp. 23?32. London: Chapman & Hall.

Pilcher J.R. and Hall V.A. (1992) Towards a tephrachronology for the Holocene of the north of Ireland. Holocene 2, 255?9.

Ratcliffe D.A. (1977) A Nature Conservation Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rybnicek K. (1973) A comparison of the past and present mire communities of central Europe. In Quarternary Plant Ecology (P.J.B.Birks, and R.G.West, eds), pp. 237?61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schouten M.J.C. (1991) The Dutch experience ? lessons for the future. In Irish Peatlands, the Gritical Decade (P.J.Foss, ed.), pp. 89?96. Dublin: Irish Peatland Conservation Council.

Smith A.G. (1965) Problems of inertia and threshold related to post-glacial habitat changes. Proc. Roy. Soc. (B) 161, 331?42.

Smith A.G. and Cloutman E.W. (1988) Reconstruction of Holocene vegetation history in three dimensions at Waun-Fignen-Felen, and upland site in south Wales. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (B) 322, 159?219.

Smith, B.M. (1985) A palacoecological study of raised mires in the Humberhead Levels. PhD thesis, University of Wales (Cardiff).

Stoneman, R.E. (1993) Holocene palaeoclimates from peat stratigraphy: extending and refining the model. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

Svensson G. (1988). Fossil plant communities and regeneration patterns on a raised bog in south Sweden. J. Ecol. 76, 41?59.

Tallis J.H. (1991) Plant Community History. London: Chapman & Hall.

Thompson R. and Oldfield F. (1986) Environmental Magnetism. London: Allen and Unwin.

Tolonen K., Huttenan P. and Junger H. (1985) Regeneration of two coastal raised bogs in eastern North America. Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. A III 139, 5?51.

Turner J. (1979) The environment of northeast England during Roman times as shown by pollen analysis. J. Archaeol. Sci 6, 285?90.

Turner J. (1962) The Tilia decline: an anthropogenic interpretation. New Phytol. 61, 328?41.

VanGeel B. (1978) A palaeoecological study of Holocene peat bog sections in Germany and the Netherlands, based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macro-and microscopic remains of fungi, algae, cormophytes and animals. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 25, 1?120.

VanGeel B., Bregman R., van derMolen P.C., Dupont L. and vanDriel-Murray C. (1989) Holocene raised bog deposits in the Netherlands as geochemical archives of prehistoric aerosols. Acta Bot. Neerl. 38, 467?76.

VanGeel B. and Middledorp A.A. (1988) Vegetational history of Carberry Bog (County Kildare, Ireland) during the last 850 years and a test of the temperature indicator value of 2H/1H measurements of peat samples in relation to historical sources and meteorological data. New Phytol. 109, 377?92.

Walker D. (1970) Direction and rate in some British post-glacial hydroseres. In Studies in the Vegetational History of the British Isles (D.Walker and R.G.West, eds), pp. 117?39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Walker D. and Walker P.M. (1961) Stratigraphic evidence of regeneration in some Irish bogs. J. Ecol. 49, 169?85.

West R.G. (1980) Pleistocene forest history of East Anglia. New Phytol. 85, 571?622.

Wheeler B.D. (1993) Botanical diversity in British mires. Biodiv. Conserv. 2, 490?512.

Wimble, G.A. (1986) The palaeoecology of lowland coastal raised mires of south Cumbria. PhD thesis, University of Wales (Cardiff).