Althea L Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 1962844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Althea L Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Althea L |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8982-7471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species
Attempts to address biodiversity loss have led to ecosystem and species restoration efforts. Tree species restoration is particularly relevant because of increasing threats from pests and pathogens. However, there are different notions of ‘loss’, as well as sociocultural considerations, including social acceptability, which are often neglected in decision‐making for restoration. This paper explores concepts and meanings of ‘loss’, discusses socio…
Translation urgency in our climate-challenged times
This paper makes a case for revisiting the understandings of translation to enhance the co-production of geographical knowledge on climate change. Specifically, it offers insights about the potential role that schoolteachers and students can have as knowledge producers in relation to climate change by drawing on a case study of collaborative research on El Niño in Sechura, northern Peru. We call for researchers to pay greater attention to how co-…
Navigating shifting waters
This paper examines the relationships between extractive infrastructure, changing territorial strategies, and contemporary processes of subject formation among the Urarina, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. We first introduce the uneven and combined character of oil extraction in the Loreto region in north-eastern Peru, and how its racialised spatial contradictions are expressed in the ethnopolitical field that gives political form to …
The vulnerability of tropical peatlands to oil and gas exploration and extraction
Tropical peatlands store globally significant quantities of carbon and are ecologically and culturally important, but little is known about their vulnerability to oil and gas exploration and extraction. Here, we analyse the exposure of tropical peatlands to the activities of the petroleum industry and review what is known about the sensitivity of peatlands to these activities. We find that 8.3% (107,000 km 2 ) of the total area of tropical peatla…
Environmental Archaeology and Conservation
The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology
The concept of resilience has become increasingly important in ecological and socio-ecological literature. With its focus on the temporal behaviour of ecosystems, palaeoecology has an important role to play in developing a scientific understanding of ecological resilience. We provide a critical review of the ways in which resilience is being addressed by palaeoecologists. We review ~180 papers, identifying the definitions or conceptualisations of…
Late Holocene regime shifts in moorland ecosystems
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
Excavation of a beaker cist burial with meadowsweet at Home Farm, Udny Green, Aberdeenshire
This paper summarizes the results of the rescue excavation of a short cist burial of a young male.Pollen and other analyses of residues in and immediately below the accompanying beaker suggestthat it had contained a drink, possibly milk, flavoured with meadowsweet and possibly containinghoney. Pollen analysis also revealed that the cist had been constructed within an open, farmedlandscape, probably not far from a settlement; wheat and perhaps bar…
Reading the pastoral landscape
Many upland environments are valued for their openness, which is often actively maintained by extensive pastoral agriculture. Documentary sources indicate the complexity and longevity of regulations designed to protect the hill grazing resource from over-exploitation but these systems leave relatively few traces on the ground. Consequently pollen analysis is an important method for establishing the impact of centuries of grazing on the quality of…
Prehistoric Pinus woodland dynamics in an upland landscape in northern Scotland
Upland agriculture and environmental risk
Sensing small-scale human activity in the palaeoecological record
This paper examines the importance of palynological site selection criteria, speci”cally basin size, for the detection of vegetation mosaics and small- or local-scale human activity within a spatially diverse, mosaic landscape. Using a site selection strategy which recognizes landscape patchiness, pollen analyses from three small peat basins (10–56 m diameter) in an open, exposed upland valley (>250 m OD) provide records which are sensitive to lo…
A Re-Survey of the Morphology of the Nose in Relation to Climate
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
A Re-Survey of the Morphology of the Nose in Relation to Climate
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
Prehistoric Pinus woodland dynamics in an upland landscape in northern Scotland
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
Sensing small-scale human activity in the palaeoecological record
This paper examines the importance of palynological site selection criteria, speci”cally basin size, for the detection of vegetation mosaics and small- or local-scale human activity within a spatially diverse, mosaic landscape. Using a site selection strategy which recognizes landscape patchiness, pollen analyses from three small peat basins (10–56 m diameter) in an open, exposed upland valley (>250 m OD) provide records which are sensitive to lo…
Upland agriculture and environmental risk
The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology
The concept of resilience has become increasingly important in ecological and socio-ecological literature. With its focus on the temporal behaviour of ecosystems, palaeoecology has an important role to play in developing a scientific understanding of ecological resilience. We provide a critical review of the ways in which resilience is being addressed by palaeoecologists. We review ~180 papers, identifying the definitions or conceptualisations of…
Late Holocene regime shifts in moorland ecosystems
The vulnerability of tropical peatlands to oil and gas exploration and extraction
Tropical peatlands store globally significant quantities of carbon and are ecologically and culturally important, but little is known about their vulnerability to oil and gas exploration and extraction. Here, we analyse the exposure of tropical peatlands to the activities of the petroleum industry and review what is known about the sensitivity of peatlands to these activities. We find that 8.3% (107,000 km 2 ) of the total area of tropical peatla…
Excavation of a beaker cist burial with meadowsweet at Home Farm, Udny Green, Aberdeenshire
This paper summarizes the results of the rescue excavation of a short cist burial of a young male.Pollen and other analyses of residues in and immediately below the accompanying beaker suggestthat it had contained a drink, possibly milk, flavoured with meadowsweet and possibly containinghoney. Pollen analysis also revealed that the cist had been constructed within an open, farmedlandscape, probably not far from a settlement; wheat and perhaps bar…
A Re-Survey of the Morphology of the Nose in Relation to Climate
Sensing small-scale human activity in the palaeoecological record
This paper examines the importance of palynological site selection criteria, speci”cally basin size, for the detection of vegetation mosaics and small- or local-scale human activity within a spatially diverse, mosaic landscape. Using a site selection strategy which recognizes landscape patchiness, pollen analyses from three small peat basins (10–56 m diameter) in an open, exposed upland valley (>250 m OD) provide records which are sensitive to lo…
Reading the pastoral landscape
Many upland environments are valued for their openness, which is often actively maintained by extensive pastoral agriculture. Documentary sources indicate the complexity and longevity of regulations designed to protect the hill grazing resource from over-exploitation but these systems leave relatively few traces on the ground. Consequently pollen analysis is an important method for establishing the impact of centuries of grazing on the quality of…
Prehistoric Pinus woodland dynamics in an upland landscape in northern Scotland
Upland agriculture and environmental risk
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
Excavation of a beaker cist burial with meadowsweet at Home Farm, Udny Green, Aberdeenshire
This paper summarizes the results of the rescue excavation of a short cist burial of a young male.Pollen and other analyses of residues in and immediately below the accompanying beaker suggestthat it had contained a drink, possibly milk, flavoured with meadowsweet and possibly containinghoney. Pollen analysis also revealed that the cist had been constructed within an open, farmedlandscape, probably not far from a settlement; wheat and perhaps bar…
Late Holocene regime shifts in moorland ecosystems
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology
The concept of resilience has become increasingly important in ecological and socio-ecological literature. With its focus on the temporal behaviour of ecosystems, palaeoecology has an important role to play in developing a scientific understanding of ecological resilience. We provide a critical review of the ways in which resilience is being addressed by palaeoecologists. We review ~180 papers, identifying the definitions or conceptualisations of…
Environmental Archaeology and Conservation
The vulnerability of tropical peatlands to oil and gas exploration and extraction
Tropical peatlands store globally significant quantities of carbon and are ecologically and culturally important, but little is known about their vulnerability to oil and gas exploration and extraction. Here, we analyse the exposure of tropical peatlands to the activities of the petroleum industry and review what is known about the sensitivity of peatlands to these activities. We find that 8.3% (107,000 km 2 ) of the total area of tropical peatla…
Navigating shifting waters
This paper examines the relationships between extractive infrastructure, changing territorial strategies, and contemporary processes of subject formation among the Urarina, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. We first introduce the uneven and combined character of oil extraction in the Loreto region in north-eastern Peru, and how its racialised spatial contradictions are expressed in the ethnopolitical field that gives political form to …
Translation urgency in our climate-challenged times
This paper makes a case for revisiting the understandings of translation to enhance the co-production of geographical knowledge on climate change. Specifically, it offers insights about the potential role that schoolteachers and students can have as knowledge producers in relation to climate change by drawing on a case study of collaborative research on El Niño in Sechura, northern Peru. We call for researchers to pay greater attention to how co-…
Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species
Attempts to address biodiversity loss have led to ecosystem and species restoration efforts. Tree species restoration is particularly relevant because of increasing threats from pests and pathogens. However, there are different notions of ‘loss’, as well as sociocultural considerations, including social acceptability, which are often neglected in decision‐making for restoration. This paper explores concepts and meanings of ‘loss’, discusses socio…
Geography (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Physical geography (6 works) · Pollen (6 works) · Climate change (4 works)