A historical perspective on recent landscape transformation: integrating palaeoecological, documentary and contemporary evidence for former vegetation patterns and dynamics in the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia / Sophia Anastasia Bickford.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319).xx, 319, [30] leaves : ill. (some col.), maps ; 30 cm.Palaeoecological records, documented historical records and remnant vegetation were investigated in order to construct a multi-scaled history of vegetation pattern and change in the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia over the last c. 8000 years. Aims to better understand post-European landscape transformation and address the inherently historical components of the problems of regional biodiversity loss, land sustainability and the cumulative contribution to global climatic change.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geographical and Environmental Studies, 200