Birks H John B
Department of Biology and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, N-5007 Bergen, Norway.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2005 Apr;20(4):154-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2005.02.001.
There are two competing hypotheses about the structure and dynamics of primeval forests in lowland Europe: the high-forest and the wood-pasture hypotheses, both of which influence current European forest conservation policies. In a recent study using pollen-analytical data from across lowland Europe, Mitchell provides support for rejecting the wood-pasture hypothesis. His study is important for future forest management planning and for showing how hypotheses about large herbivores as biotic factors can be tested using palaeoecological data.
关于欧洲低地原始森林的结构和动态，存在两种相互竞争的假说：高森林假说和林牧假说，这两种假说都对当前欧洲的森林保护政策产生影响。在最近一项利用来自欧洲低地各地花粉分析数据的研究中，米切尔为拒绝林牧假说提供了支持。他的研究对于未来的森林管理规划以及展示如何利用古生态数据检验关于大型食草动物作为生物因素的假说具有重要意义。
