"'An Enemy of the Rabbit:' The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer"
The importation providing the focus of this paper is that of members of the family Mustelidae, specifically weasels, ferrets and stoats.
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"The History (1620–2003) of Land Use, People and Livestock, and the Relationship to Present Plant Species Diversity in a Rural Landscape in Sweden"
The objectives of this study were to describe changes in land use during c. 350 years in a Swedish agricultural landscape in relation to changes in human population and livestock, and to analyse relationships between historical land use and present-day plant species diversity.
"Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling"
Allen, Robert C., and Ian Keay. “Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling.” Environment and History 12, no. 1 (Feb., 2006): 89–113. doi:10.3197/097634006776026791. As early as 1611 bowhead whales resident between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen were the subject of intensive commercial hunting effort by Dutch, German and British whalers. By 1911 there was no significant, permanent population of bowhead whales living in these waters.
"The Last European Landscape to be Colonised: A Case Study of Land-Use Change in the Far North of Sweden 1850–1930"
The aim of this study was to analyse the swift land-use transition, from nomadic to agricultural, in the last colonised landscape of northern Sweden. Using historical documents and maps together with modern maps and a field survey, the authors wanted to link land-use patterns as strongly as possible to landscape features and ecosystems.
"Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America's Great Lakes, 1870–2000"
Chiarappa, Michael J. “Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America’s Great Lakes, 1870–2000.” Environment and History 11, no.2 (May, 2005): 163–94. doi:10.3197/096734005774434566.
“Environmental History of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I., and its Ecological Impact”
The authors present a comprehensive analysis of marine mammal utilisation for Trinidad and Tobago.
"Three Centuries of Whaling and Walrus Hunting in Svalbard and its Impact on the Arctic Ecosystem"
In this article whaling and walrus hunting and their impact on the environment is reconstructed. Annual catch records and shipping logs made it possible to calculate the original size of the populations and to reconstruct their original migration in the Greenland Sea.
"Frontier Foods for Late Medieval Consumers: Culture, Economy, Ecology"
This essay considers medieval long distance trades in grain, cattle, and preserved fish as antecedents to today’s globalised movements of foodstuffs.
"Bamboo, Rats and Famines: Famine Relief and Perceptions of British Paternalism in the Mizo Hills (India)"
As the British entered the Mizo hills (part of the Indo-Burmese range of hills, then known as the Lushai hills) to chase the headhunting tribal raiders and try to gain control over them by securing a foothold in the heart of the hills at Aizawl, they witnessed an amazing ecological phenomenon: a severe famine apparently caused by rats.
"European Farming, Australian Pests: Agricultural Settlement and Environmental Disruption in Australia, 1800–1920"
In this article, which considers the settlement of the high-rainfall forests of Eastern Australia, it is argued that the main pests were indigenous not exotic.