BURREN LIBRARY ECOLOGY

Flora (for Fauna, please refer to Miscellaneous Reference Section)

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An Foras Forbartha (1972). An investigation into the effects of fertilizer application on limestone grassland in the Burren, Co. Clare. Dublin.
Baker, H C. (1954). The Limonium binervosum complex in western and northern Ireland. Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, 1, 131-41.
Bates, M. A. (1988). A Review of the management and its effects on the vegetation in the Burren national park, Co. Clare. Unpublished Report to the Office of Public Works. Farnborough College of Technology.
Boatman, D. J. (1956). Mercurialis perennis L. in Ireland. The Journal of Ecology 44, 587-596. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Braun-Blanquet, J. and R. Tuxen (1952). Irische Pflanzengesellschaften. In: Ludi, W. (ed.) Die Pflanzenwelt Irlands. Veroffentlichungen des geobotanischen Institutes Rubel in Zurich, 25, 224-415.
British Ecological Society (1962). The Burren and its problems: Summary of a paper by Prof. D.A. Webb. Journal of Ecology 50, 846-848. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Byrne, R.A. (1981). Ecological comparisons of three water bodies in The Burren District of County Clare. Unpublished MSc thesis No. 436. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin.
Byrne, R. A. and J. D. Reynolds (1982). Preliminary notes on a Doline in Lough Gealain, the Burren, County Clare. Irish Naturalists Journal 20 (9), 375-377. Belfast.
Cabot, D. (1999). The Burren and Turloughs. In: Cabot, D. Ireland: A Natural History, 191-230. London: Harper Collins.
Clapham, A. R., T. G. Tutin and E. F. Warburgh (1981). Excursion Flora of The British Isles Third edition. Cambridge University Press.
Colgan, N. (1897): Euphrasia salisburgensis Funck in Ireland. -in: I.N., 6, 105-8.
Corry, T.H. (1880): Notes of a botanical ramble in the County of Clare, Ireland. Proceedings of the Belfast Natural History and Philisophical Society, 1879-80, 167-207.
D'Arcy, G. and J. Hayward (1992). The Natural History of the Burren. London: Immel Publishing.
Curtis, T.G.F. and H.N. McGough(1981): A survey of the wetlands of the Fergus catchment and adjoining areas. FWS internal report.
D'Auria, L. (1993). The impact of tourists on the Burren vegetation on County Clare, Ireland. Unpublished BSc thesis. Dublin: University College Dublin.
de Valéra, M., C. Pybus, B.Calsey and A.Webster (1979). Littoral and Benthic Investigations on the West Coast of Ireland, X. Marine Alga of the Northern shores of the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 79B, 259-269. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Dickinson, C. H., M. C. Pearson and D. A. Webb (1964). Some microhabitats of the Burren, their micro-environments and vegetation. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 63B, 291-302. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Dickinson, C. H. and T. K. Thorp (1968). Epiphytic Lichens on Corylus avellana in the Burren, County Clare. Lichenologist 4, 66-72. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Diersche, H. (1982): Teucrio-Scorodoniae-Geranietum sanguinei, a new Saum association of the Trifolio-Geranietea in Ireland. In: White (ed.) (1982), Studies on Irish Vegetation, 289-357. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society. 175-179.
Dixon, J. M. (1982). Biological flora of the British Isles: Sesleria albicans. The Journal of Ecology 70, 667-684. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Doyle, G. (1982). Narrative of the Excursion of the International Society for Vegetation Science to Ireland, 21-31 July 1980. In: White, J (ed.) Studies on Irish Vegetation, 43-64. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society.
Doyle, G. J. (1986). Lychnis flos-cuculi L. and Carex disticha (Hudson) in the Burren Hills. Irish Naturalists Journal 22 (2), 74-77. Belfast.
Druce, G.C. (1909). Notes on Irish Plants. Irish Naturalist 18, 209-213.
Dunne, F. (1994). Sampling and establishment of permanent vegetation quadrats in the Burren National park. Unpublished Report to the Office of Public Works.
Fanning, M (1995). The Ecology of Limestone heaths in the Burren, Co. Clare. Unpublished BSC thesis. Dublin: University College Dublin, Department of Botany.
Fanning, M. (1995). Vegetation studies in The Burren National Park. Unpublished Report.
Fanning, M. (1996). Description of the soil types and their related vegetation types in the Burren National Park. Unpublished Report..
Foot, F. J. (1864). On the distribution of plants in the Burren, County of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 24, 143-160. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Gough, K. (1952): Orchis traunsteinerioides Pugsl. in Clare. The Irish Naturalist`s Journal. 10, 273.
Griffiths, M. E. and M. C. F. Proctor (1956). Biological Flora of the British Isles: Helianthemum canum (L.). The Journal of Ecology 44, 677-682. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Heslop-Harrison, J. (1949). Pinguicula grandiflora (Lam.) in north Clare. Irish Naturalists Journal 9, 311. Belfast.
Heslop-Harrison, J. (1960). A note on temperature and vapour-pressure deficit under drought conditions in some microhabitats of the Burren limestone, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61B, 109-114. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Heslop-Harrison, J., D. A. Wilkins and S. W. Greene (1960). Arenaria norvegica (Gunn), a species new to the Irish Flora, in County Clare. Irish Naturalists Journal 13, 267-268. Belfast.
Ivimey-Cook, R. B. (1965). The vegetation of solution cups in the limestone of the Burren Co. Clare. The Journal of Ecology 53, 437-445. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Ivimey-Cook, R. B. and M. C. F Proctor (1966). Plant Communities of the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy 64B, 211-301. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Jeffrey, D. W. (1995). The management of Burren Grasslands. In: Jeffrey, D. W., M. B. Jones and J. H. McAdam (Eds.). Irish grasslands - their biology and management 267-75. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Jelicic, Lj. and O'Connell, M. (1992). History of vegetation and land use from 3200 B.P. to the present in the north-west Burren, a karstic region of western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1, 119-140.
O'Connell, M. and Lj. Jelicic (1994). Lios Lairthin Mor (LLM II), N.W. Burren: history of vegetation and land use from 3200 BP to the present. In: O'Connell, M. (ed.) Burren, Co. Clare. Irish Association for Quarternary Studies, Field Guide No. 18.
Keane, S. (1990). Vegetation and land use studies in the Eastern area of the Burren, Co. Clare. Unpublished MSc Thesis, University College Galway, Department of Botany.
Keane, S. and M. Sheehy Skeffington (1995). Vegetation in the East Burren Uplands in relation to land use and conservation. In: Jeffrey, D. W., M. B. Jones and J. H. McAdam (Eds.) Irish grasslands- their biology and management 267-75. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Kelly, D.L. (1980). Mullaghmore Wood, Burren, Co. Clare. Unpublished Report.
Kelly, D. L. and E. N. Kirby (1982). Irish Native Woodlands over Limestone. In: White, J. (ed.) Studies on Irish Vegetation, 181-198. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society.
Kirby, E. N. and B.A. MacGowran (1979). A Vegetation survey of the proposed National Park area in The Burren, Co. Clare. Unpublished Report to the Office of Public Works. Galway: University College Galway, Dept. of Botany.
Kirby, E. N. (1981). An Ecological and Phytosociological study of Corylus avellana L. in the Burren. Unpublished PhD thesis No. 985, University College Galway.
Lambe, E., M. E. Mitchell and M. O'Connell (1978). A reassessment of the status of Mercurialis perennis (L.) in the Burren, Co. Clare. Irish Naturalists Journal 19(5), 157-8. Belfast.
Levinge, H.C. (1892). Neotinea intacta in County Clare. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, London, 30, 194-5.
MacGowran, B. (1979). Rorippa islandica (Oeder ex Murray) Borbas in turloughs of south-east Galway ((H15). The Irish Naturalist`s Journal 19, 326-7.
MacGowran, B. (1985). Phytosociological and ecological studies on turloughs in the West of Ireland. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University College Galway.
McCarthy, P.M. (1983). The composition of some calcicolous lichen communities in the Burren, Western Ireland. Lichenologist 15(3), 231-248. London: Academic Press.
McCarthy, P.M., Mitchell, M.E. and Schouten, M.G.C. (1985): Lichens epiphytic on Calluna vulgaris in Ireland. Nova Hedwigia 41.
McGettigan, S. (1972): Some observations on the bark of Corylus avellana and its epiphytic lichen flora in the Burren. B.Sc. Thesis University College, Galway.
McGough, H. N. (1984). A report on the grasslands and closely related vegetation types of the Burren Region of western Ireland. Unpublished report to The Wildlife Service, Dept. of Forest and Fisheries, Dublin.
Moles, R. and I. Travers (1982). Mullach Mor, Co. Clare, Ireland, Habitat Map.
Moles, R. (1985). Habitats of the Burren IQUA Newsletter 8, 16.
Moles, R and J. Breen (1991). Surveillance of recent vegetation change in the Burren, Co. Clare, Rep. of Ireland. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 1, 151-156.
Moles, R. (1992). Trampling damage to vegetation and soil cover at paths within the Burren National Park, Mullach More, Co. Clare. Irish Geography 25 (2), 129-137. Dublin: Geographical society of Ireland.
Moles, R. (1995). Change at the edges of Burren grassland patches. In: Jeffrey, D. W., M. B. Jones and J. H. McAdam (Eds.). Irish grasslands- their biology and management, 246-52. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. (2003). Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the karstic environment of Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland: pollen analytical evidence evaluated in the light of the archaeological record. Quaternary International (in press)
Murray, R.P. (1887). Arabis ciliata R.Br. in Clare. Journal of Botany, London. 25, 183.
Nelson, E. C. (1979). Records of the Irish flora published before 1726. Irish Biogeographical Society Bulletin No. 3, 51-74. Irish Biogeographical Society.
Nelson, E. C. and W. Walsh (1991). The Burren: a companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness. Kilkenny: Boethius Press and The Conservancy of The Burren.
Nelson, E. and R.A. Stalley (1992). Medieval Naturalism and the Botanical Carvings at Corcomroe Abbey (Co. Clare). - Gesta Vol. 28, Part II, 165-174.
Nelson, E. C. (2000). An annotated topographical checklist of the flowering plants, conifers, ferns and fern allies of The Burren Region. Dr. E.C. Nelson and The Burren Tourism and Environment Initiative, 2000.
O'Donovan, G. (1987). An Ecosystem Study of Grasslands in the Burren National Park, Co. Clare. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College Dublin.
O'Donovan, G. and D. W. Jeffrey (1990). Above- and below-ground productivity and Nitrogen flux in a Sesleria albicans (kit) dominated grassland in The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland. In: S. H., D. W. H. Walton and D. A. Wells (Eds.) Calcareous Grasslands- Ecology and Management, 74-78. Huntingdon: Bluntisham Books.
O'Donovan, G. (1995). Grazing of Sesleria grassland in the Burren National Park. In: Jeffrey, D. W., M. B. Jones and J. H. McAdam (Eds.). Irish grasslands - their biology and management, 67-72. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
O'Donovan, G. (2001). Productivity, grazing pressure and phenology of a Sesleria-dominated grassland in the Burren National Park. Tearmann 1(1), 35-54. Dublin: Teagasc and the Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin.
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Praeger, R.L. and Carr, J.W.M. (1895): Report of the Field Club Union Conference of Galway. Phanerogams, Ferns, etc. Irish Naturalist 14, 246-52.
Praeger, R.L. (1901). Irish Topographical Botany. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 7B.
Praeger, R.L. (1903). Pinguicula grandiflora in Clare. Irish Naturalist 12, 269.
Praeger, R. L. (1905). Notes on the Botany of Central Clare. Irish Nature 14, 188-193.
Praeger, R. L. (1905). The Sorbus aria group in Ireland. Irish Naturalists Journal 5, 50-52. Belfast.
Praeger, R. L. (1932). The flora of the turloughs: A preliminary note. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 41B, 37-45. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
Praeger, R.L. (1934). The Botanist in Ireland. Dublin: Hodge, Figges and Co.
Praeger, R. L. (1939). A further contribution to the flora of Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 45B, 231-254. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
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Proctor, M.C.F. (1958). Ecological and historical factors in the distribution of the British Helianthemum species. The Journal of Ecology. 46, 349-71.
Proctor, M.C.F. (1959). A note on Acricladium trifarium in Ireland. Transactions of the British bryological Society 3, 571-74.
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Scannell, M. J. P. (1973). "Algal Paper" of Oedogonium Sp., Its Occurrence in the Burren, Co. Clare. Irish Naturalists Journal 17, 147-152. Belfast.
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Webb, D.A. (1947). Two new western plant records. The Irish Naturalist`s Journal. 9, 100.
Webb, D.A. (1950). A revision of the dactyloid saxifrages of north-west Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 53B, 207-240.
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Webb, D. A. (1955). Woodland Relics in the Burren. Irish Naturalists Journal 11, 251-252. Belfast.
Webb, D. A. (1962). Noteworthy Plants of The Burren: A Catalogue Raisonne. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 62B, 117-134. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
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Webb, D. A. (1979). Botanical Note. Three trees naturalised in Ireland. Irish Naturalists Journal, 19(10), 369. Belfast.
Webb, D.A. (1982). Plant Records from Connemara and the Burren. The Irish Naturalist`s Journal 20, 466-71.
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