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| Michael O'Connell | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Irish |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | NUI Galway |
Michael O'Connell is Professor of Botany at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
O'Connell is a member of the Palaeoenvironmental Research Unit and a member of the Environmental Protection Agency. His areas of interests include past environments, past climate change, long-term human impact and late-glacial and Holocene environments.
Select bibliography
- Connemara:Vegetation and Land Use Since the Last Ice Age, Dublin, 1994.
- "Fresh insights into long-term changes in flora, vegetation, land use and soil erosion in the karstic environment of the Burren, western Ireland", with I. Feeser, in Journal of Ecology 97, pp. 1083–1100, 2009.
- "Palaeoecological investigations in the Barrees Valley", in Local worlds: Early settlement landscapes and upland farming in south-west Ireland, pp. 285–322, Cork, 2009.
References
- Molloy, Karen; O'Connell, Michael (19 February 1991). "Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of woodland and land-use history at Lough Sheeauns, Connemara, western Ireland". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 67 (1): 75–113. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(91)90017-W. ISSN 0034-6667.
- "When the Burren was forest". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 May 2020.