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- Caledonian_Forest abstract "The Caledonian Forest is the name given to the former (ancient old-growth) boreal forest of Scotland. The name comes to us from Pliny the elder who tells us that 30 years after the Roman invasion of Britain their knowledge of it did not extend beyond the neighbourhood of ‘silva caledonia’. He gives no information about where ‘silva caledonia’ was, but the known extent of the Roman occupation suggest that it was north of Clyde and west of Tay.The Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice-age ; arriving about 7,000 BC. The forest reached its maximum extent about 5,000 BC after which the Scottish climate became wetter and windier. This changed climate reduced the extent of the forest significantly by 2,000 BC. From that date, human actions (including the grazing effects of sheep and deer) reduced it to its current extent.Today, that forest exist as 35, as authenticated in Steven & Carlisle (1959), or 84 (including later subjective subdivisions of the 35) remnants covering about 180 square kilometres (44,000 acres). The Scots pines of these remnants are, by definition, directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice-age. These remnants have adapted genetically to different Scottish environments, and as such, are globally unique ; their ecological characteristics form an unbroken, 9,000 year chain of natural evolution with a distinct variety of soils, vegetation, and animals.To a great extent the remnants survived on land that was either too-steep, too-rocky, or too-remote to be agriculturally useful. The largest remnants are in Strath Spey and Strath Dee on highly acidic freely drained glacial deposits that are of little value for cultivation and domestic stock. An examination of the earliest maps of Scotland suggests that the extent of the Caledonian Forest remnants has changed little since 1600 AD.".
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- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageExternalLink www.cairngorms.co.uk.
- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageExternalLink www.forestry.gov.uk.
- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageExternalLink www.highlandwildlifepark.org.
- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageExternalLink index.asp.
- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageExternalLink www.treesforlife.org.uk.
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- Caledonian_Forest wikiPageRevisionID "604473871".
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- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Arthurian_locations.
- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Conservation_in_Scotland.
- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Forests_and_woodlands_of_Scotland.
- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Palearctic_ecoregions.
- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Rural_Scotland.
- Caledonian_Forest subject Category:Temperate_coniferous_forests.
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- Caledonian_Forest comment "The Caledonian Forest is the name given to the former (ancient old-growth) boreal forest of Scotland. The name comes to us from Pliny the elder who tells us that 30 years after the Roman invasion of Britain their knowledge of it did not extend beyond the neighbourhood of ‘silva caledonia’.".
- Caledonian_Forest label "Bosque Caledonio".
- Caledonian_Forest label "Caledonian Forest".
- Caledonian_Forest label "Forêts de conifères calédoniennes".
- Caledonian_Forest label "Каледонский лес".
- Caledonian_Forest sameAs Bosque_Caledonio.
- Caledonian_Forest sameAs Forêts_de_conifères_calédoniennes.
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- Caledonian_Forest sameAs Q2663355.
- Caledonian_Forest sameAs Caledonian_Forest.
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- Caledonian_Forest isPrimaryTopicOf Caledonian_Forest.
