Table of Contents

1: General introduction and formulation of the problem 2: Succession, the climax forest and the role of large herbivores 3: Palynology, the forest as climax in prehistoric times and the effects of humans 4: The use of the wilderness from the Middle Ages to 1900 5: Spontaneous succession in forest reserves in the lowlands of Western and Central Europe 6: Establishment of trees and shrubs in relation to light and grazing 7: Final synthesis and conclusions

Reviews

"Grazing Ecology and Forest History is an important and fascinating book and it has been published not a moment too soon, for the last vestiges of natural" Europe are currently slipping away unrecognized. Technical in nature, it is likely to be read by relatively few, yet so explosive are its implications that it may well set off a revolution."-- "The New York Review of Books"