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Culture 2000

European Union

 

Dr. Gina Elizabeth Hannon

Gina is a botanist with keen interest in the history of vegetation communities which she studies using geological techniques. Of particular interest, is the role man has played in shaping the vegetation we see on the landscape today, whether it be as a result of direct or indirect anthropogenic impact. This has led to a research career in Botany, Geology and now in the Faculty of Forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Published research includes the history of first human impact on the Faroe Islands and Iceland, as seen in the fossil record, and the underlying climatic control, which has shaped pre-settlement vegetational development. Current research activities which focus on the analysis of plant macrofossil seeds, fruits, leaves, bracts and wood, includes the study of treeline movement over the last 6000 years in northern Fennoscandia and the history of the expansion of Beech (Fagus sylvatica) into southern Scandinavia. Gina also is working on the history of the Swedish "forest meadows" on the Bjäre peninsula, by looking at their plant communities as seen in the plant macrofossil record over the last 2000 years.

Gina is from Ireland and did her first two degrees at the Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin. On moving to Sweden in 1988, Gina took up a position at the Department of Quaternary Geology at Lund University. Her Phd “The use of Plant Macrofossils and Pollen in the Palaeoecological Reconstruction of Vegetation” was completed in 1999. She has worked as a researcher and teacher of forest ecology and forest history at the Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre since 1998.

Publications

Hannon, G.E., Hermanns-Audardóttir, M and Wastegård, S. 1998 Human impact at Tjørnuvík on the Faroe Islands. Frodskaparrit 46 165-178.

Hannon, G.E. 1999. The use of Plant Macrofossils and Pollen in the Palaeoecological Reconstruction of Vegetation. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae. Silvestria 106.

Hannon, G.E., Bradshaw R.H.W. and Emborg, J. 2000. 6000 years of forest dynamics in Suserup Skov, a semi-natural Danish woodland. Global Ecology and Biogeography 9, 101-114.

Hannon, G. E. and Bradshaw R. 2000 Holocene vegetation dynamics and impact of human settlement on the Faroe Islands. Quaternary Research 54, 404-413.

Wastegård, S., Björck, S., Grauert, M., and Hannon, G. E. 2001 The Mjáuvøtn Tephra and other Holocene tephra horizons from the Faroe Islands: a potential link between the Icelandic source region, the Nordic Seas, and the European continent. The Holocene 11 (1), 101-109.

Wohlfarth, B., Hannon G.E., Feurdean, A., Ghergari, L., Petroni, B. and Possnert, G. A. 2001. Reconstruction of climatic and environmental changes in NW Romania during the early part of the last deglaciation (~15,000-13,600 cal yr BP). Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1897 - 1914.

Hannon, G.E., Wastegård, S., Bradshaw, E. and Bradshaw, R.H.W. 2001. Human Impact and Landscape Degradation on the Faroe Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 101B (1-2).

Bradshaw R.H.W., Hannon, G. E. and Lister, A. M. 2002. A long-term perspective on ungulate-vegetation interactions (in press). Forest Ecology and Management.

Wastegård, S., Hall, V.A., Hannon, G. E., van den Bogaard, C., Hermanns-Auðardóttir, Pilcher, J.R. and Sigurgeirsson, M.A. (2002). Rhyolitic tephra horizons in North-western Europe and Iceland from the 700-800s AD; a potential alternative for dating first human impact.(in press). The Holocene.

 
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