The Vegetation of Dartmoor by S D Ward, A D Jones & M Manton - 1972

Headley Brothers, 1972. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 7" x 9.75. p/b pages 505 to 533, condition is good, slight edge wear, fold out map. Reprinted from "Field Studies Vol 3, No 4 (1972)". The combined procedures of ground examination of the vegetation, using association-analysis, and the examination of air photographic prints are used to produce a vegetation map of Dartmoor. An attempt is made to trace the development of the vegetation types described by comparing the present vegetation with descriptions made at the end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The processes of change which can be observed on Dartmoor are elucidated by comparing them with those of other hill areas where they have been studied in greater detail and documented more fully.