The Historical Ecology of Some Unimproved Alluvial Grassland in the Upper Thames Valley
This work focuses on some common land within 3 miles of Oxford City centre known as Port Meadow and Picksey Mead. The wealth of ecological, historical and archaeological information now available for these areas of grassland is thoroughly described. A section deals with the history of the control or management of the upper reaches of the River Thames and the adjacent grassland, while the third section looks at change in these grassland communities and comparison with other grassland systems in lowland England.
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Achillea millefolium Agros sto Agrostis capillaris Agrostis stolonifera alluvium Alope Appendix arable Arrhenatherum elatius Binsey BRITISH PLANT COMMUNITY Bromus Bronze Age buttercup Carex panicea cattle Centaurea Century Cirsium arvense Cirsium vulgare CONSTANT SPECIES Deschampsia cespitosa ditches dung farming Festu flooding floodplain Freemen Galium verum Godstow grass grassland Rodwell 1992 Grassland Type grazing animals grid hay meadows Holcus horses Iron Age Juncus King's Weir Lambrick land Leont Lolium perenne Meadow with Wolvercote Medley Weir Mentha aquatica Nature Conservancy Council nigra officinalis Oxford grassland palustris pasture Phleu Photograph Phragmites australis Picksey Mead Plantago major Poa annua Poa tri Poa trivialis Port Meadow Port Meadow Marsh Potentilla anserina ragwort Ranunculus acris recorded Robinson Rumex ryegrass sampling seeds Senecio jacobaea settlement shows soil species-rich Stand suggests sward TOTAL SPP Trifo rep Trifolium repens Twinspan upper Thames valley vegetation water-table winter Wolvercote Common Yarnton Yarnton and Begbroke