Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements
1 Britain and Ireland: Two Western Islands
2 Prehistory: from Glaciation to the Iron Age
3 History: from the Romans to Modern Times
6 Woods on the Better Soils, and Wet Woods
7 Broad-Leaved Woods on Acid Soils, and Scottish Pinewoods
8 Wood Margins, Scrub and Hedgerows
10 Weeds and Ruderals: Ecological Opportunism
11 Chalk and Limestone Grasslands
12 Lakes and Rivers: Freshwater Aquatic Vegetation
13 Peat, Peatlands and the Hydrosere
14 The Diversity of Peatlands: Fens and Valley Bogs
15 Peatland Landscapes: Ombrogenous Bogs
16 Heaths, Heather-Moors and Acid Grasslands
20 Sea-cliffs and Rocky Shores