Frans Vera | |
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 Dr Frans Vera, September 2016 | |
| Born | 4 June 1949 Amsterdam |
Dr Frans Vera (born Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria Vera; Amsterdam, 4 June 1949)[1] is a Dutch biologist and conservationist. He has played a key part in devising the current ecological strategy for the Netherlands. He has hypothesised that Western European primeval forests at the end of the Pleistocene epoch did not consist only of "closed-canopy" high-forest conditions, but also included pastures combined with forests, a hypothesis variously addressed as the Vera hypothesis or the wood-pasture hypothesis.[2][3]
- ^ Voous 1995, pp. 514.
- ^ "Experiments with the wilds at the Oostvaardersplassen (University of Oxford)" (PDF). www.geog.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ^ Lorimer, Jamie; Driessen, Clemens (2014). "Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: rethinking environmentalism for the Anthropocene". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 39 (2): 169–181. Bibcode:2014TrIBG..39..169L. doi:10.1111/tran.12030.