Scotland Since Prehistory: Natural Change and Human Impact

Aberdeen Account activity agricultural analysis appear areas Atlantic catches cause century chapter Clanranald clear climatic change common Conservation cover cultivation decline deer deer forests deterioration early ecological Edinburgh Edwards effect eighteenth environment environmental environmental history Estates evidence example extensive farmers fields fisheries forest grazing ground Highlands hills human impact important increased interest Islands Isles John land landscape late less Loch London major marginal midges natural nineteenth century North North Atlantic numbers occurred ocean past patterns peat perhaps period pine pollen population possible prehistoric present probably problems production recent record region relatively remains Report result rise River salmon Scotland Scottish settlement sheep farming Society soil species suggests summer surface temperatures trees University upland vegetation warm western woodland woods