Bibliography

Reading

This list contains background reading on the geology, geomorphology and biogeography of Tenerife. It is by no means exhaustive and should be used alongside alternative sources of information (e.g. BIDS, the WWW, map/satellite data). Unmarked references are available in the University BJ Library or in the Geography Map Room. References marked M are only available in the Geography Map Room short loan collection (request at the desk).

Core Books

  • Bramwell, D. and Bramwell, Z. 1974. Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands. Thornes, London.
  • Carracedo, J.C. and Day, S. 2001. Canary Islands. Terra, Harpenden.
  • Chester, D.K. 1994. Volcanoes and Society. Arnold, London.
  • Gill, R., Thirwall, M., Marriner, G., Millward, D., Norry, M., Saunders, A. & Marti, J. 1994. Tenerife, Canary Islands. Geologists Association Guide (GA49), Geological Society Publishing House, Bath.
  • Kunkel, G. (ed), 1976. Biogeography and Ecology in the Canary Islands. Junk, The Hague.
  • Scarth, A. and Tanguy, J-C. 2001. Volcanoes of Europe. Terra, Harpenden.

Project Design and Methods

  • Barrett, E.C. and Curtis, L.F. 1992. Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing. Longman, London.
  • Embleton, C. and Thornes, J.B. 1979. Process in Geomorphology. Arnold, London. (chs 3, 7, 10, 11).
  • Gardiner, V. and Dackombe, R. 1983. Geomorphological Field Manual. Allen & Unwin, London.
  • Goudie, A.S. (ed) 1990. Geomorphological Techniques. (2nd Edition). Unwin Hyman, London.
  • Green, R. 1979. Sampling Design & Stat-istical Methods for Environmental Biologists. Wiley, Chichester.
  • Grieg-Smith, P. 1983. Quantitative plant ecology. Studies in Ecology, 9, 47-53. M
  • Lillesand, and Kiefer,  1994. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. Wiley, Chichester.
  • Parsons, T. and Knight, P.G. 1995. How to do your Dissertation in Geography and Related Disciplines. Chapman & Hall, London.
  • Twidale, C.R. 1976. Analysis of Landforms. Wiley, Sydney. (ch. 6 on volcanic landforms).

Geomorphology & Hydrology

  • Aboal, J.R., Jimenez, M.S., Morales, D., & Gil, P. 2000. Effects of thinning on throughfall in Canary Islands pine forest – the role of fog. Journal of Hydrology, 238, 218-230. M
  • Aboal, J.R., Jimenez, M.S., Morales, D. & Hernandez, J.M. 1999. Rainfall interception in laurel forest in the Canary Islands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 97, 73-86. M
  • Aboal, J.R., Morales, D., Hernandez, J.M. & Jimenez, M. 1999. The measurement and modelling of the variation of stemflow in a laurel forest in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Hydrology, 221, 161-175. M
  • Aguilera-Klink, F., Perez-Moriana, E. and Sanchez-Garcia, J. 2000. The social construction of scarcity. The case of water in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Ecological Economics, 34, 233-245. M
  • Caldas, F. E. and Yaalon, D. 1985. Volcanic soils, weathering and landscape relationships of soils on tephra and basalt. Selected papers of the Congreso Internacional de Suelos Volcanicos, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, July 1984. Catena Supplement, 7, 1-151.
  • Caldas, F. E. et al. 1987. Soil types in the arid zones of the Canary Islands. Catena, 14, 317-324.
  • Cantagrel, J., Arnaud, N., Anchochea, E., Fuster, J and Huertas, M. 1999. Repeated debris avalanches on Tenerife and genesis of Las Canadas caldera wall (Canary Islands), Geology, 27, 739-742.
  • Ecker, J. 1976. Ground water behaviour in Tenerife. Journal of Hydrology, 28, 73-86.
  • Fernandopulle, D. 1976. Climate characteristics of the Canary Islands. In Kunkel, G. (ed), Biogeography and Ecology in the Canary Islands. Junk, The Hague, 185-206.
  • Furley, P.A. 1973. Soil development & slope form in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Journal of Tropical Geography, 36, 8-19.
  • Hurlimann, M., Ledesma, A. and Marti, J. 1999. Conditions favouring catastrophic landslides on Tenerife (Canary Islands). Terra Nova, 11, 106-111.
  • Ø you can access Terra Nova online at the following address:
         http://www.blacksci.co.uk/~cgilib/jnlpage.bin?Journal=terra&File=terra&Page=contents
  • Hurlimann, M., Turon, E. and Marti, J. 1999. Large landslides triggered by caldera collapse events in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. Part A – Solid Earth and Geodesy, 24, 921-924. M
  • Palacios, D. 1994. The origin of certain wide valleys in the Canary Islands. Geomorphology, 9, 1-18.
  • Rodriguez, A.R. et al. 1993. Assessment of soil degradation in the Canary Islands (Spain). Land Degradation and Rehabilitation, 4, 11-20.
  • Smith, K. 2001. Environmental Hazards. Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster. 3rd Edition. Routledge, London.
  • Watts, A.B. and Masson, D.G. 1995. A giant landslide on the north flank of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 24487-98. M

Biogeography

  • Arevalo, J.R. and Fernandez Palacios, J.M. 1999. Treefall gap characteristics and regeneration in the laurel forest of Tenerife. Journal of Vegetation Science, 9, 297-306. M
  • Bramwell, D. 1976. The endemic flora of the Canary Islands. In Kunkel, G. (ed), Biogeography and Ecology in the Canary Islands. Junk, The Hague, 207-240.
  • Bramwell, D. 1990. Conserving biodiversity in the Canary Isl. Annals of Missouri Botanic Garden, 77, 28-37. M
  • Dickson, J.H. et al. 1987. Invading plants at high altitudes on Tenerife especially in the Teide National Park. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 95, 155-179.
  • Fernández-Palacios, J.M. 1992. Climatic responses of plant species on Tenerife, the Canary Islands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 3, 595-602. M
  • Fernández-Palacios, J.M. & Nicholas, J.P. 1995. Altitudinal pattern of vegetation variation on Tenerife. Journal of Vegetation Science, 6, 183-190. M
  • Gorman, M.L. 1979. Island Ecology. Chapman & Hall, London.
  • Hollermann, P.W. 1978. Geoecological aspects of the upper timberline in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Arctic and Alpine Research, 10, 365-382.
  • Lausi, D. & Nimis, P.L. 1986. Leaf and canopy adaptations in a high elevation desert on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Vegetatio, 68, 19-31. M
  • Lausi, D. Nimis, P.L. & Tretiach, M. 1989. Adaptive leaf structures in a Myrica-Erica stand on Tenerife (Canary Islands). Vegetatio, 79, 133-42. M
  • Lems, K. 1960. Botanical notes on the Canary Islands. I The evolution of plant forms in the islands: Aeonium. Ecology, 41, 1-17.
  • Lems, K. 1961. Botanical notes on the Canary Islands. III The life form spectrum and its interpretation. Ecology, 41, 1-17.
  • Machado, A. 1976. Introduction to a faunal study of the Canary Islands’ laurisylva. In Kunkel, G. (ed), Biogeography and Ecology in the Canary Islands. Junk, The Hague, 347-412.
  • Machado Yanes, M del C, Arco Aguiler, M del C, Vernet, J-L & Ourcival, J-M. 1997. Man and vegetation in northern Tenerife (Canary Islands), during the prehispanic period based on charcoal analysis. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 6, 187-195. M
  • Parsons, J.J. 1981. Human influence on the pine and laurel forests of the Canary Islands, Geog. Review, 71, 253-271.
  • Santos, A. 1982. The Canarian ecosystem and its place in the Mediterranean world. Ecologica Mediterranea, 8, 317-322. M
  • Schmida, A. & Weger, M. 1982. Growth form diversity on the Canary Islands. Vegetatio, 102, 183-199. M
  • Schwidetzky, J. 1976. The prehispanic population of the Canary Islands. In Kunkel, G. (ed), Biogeography and Ecology in the Canary Islands. Junk, The Hague, 15-36.
  • Sunding, P. 1970. Elements in the flora of the Canary Islands and theories on the origin of their flora. Blyttia, 28, 229-258. M
  • Synge, H. 1990. Treasured islands - conservation in the Canary Islands. Green Magazine, 1, 48-51. M
  • Takhtajan, A. 1969. Flowering Plants: Origin and Dispersal. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. (section on origin of macronesian flora).
  • Takhtajan, A. 1986. Floristic Regions of the World. University of California Press, USA. (p.110-119 on ‘Tethyan (ancient Med.) subkingdom’). M
  • Geology
  • Ancochea, E. et al 1999. Evolution of the Canadas edifice and its implications for the origin of the Canadas Caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 88, 177-199. M
  • Anochea, E. et al 1990. Volcanic evolution of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) in the light of new K-Ar data. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 44, 231-249. M
  • Carracedo, J.C. 1996. Morphological and structural evolution of the W Canary Islands: hotspot-induced three-armed rifts or regional tectonic trends? Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 72, 151-162. M
  • Carracedo, J.C. 1994. The Canary Islands: an example of structural control on growth of oceanic-island volcanoes. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 60, 225-241. M
  • Carracedo, J.C. & Soler, V. 1995. Anomalously shallow palaeomagnetic inclinations and the question of the age of the Canarian Archipelago. Geophysics Journal International, 122, 393-406. M
  • Keating, B.H. and McGuire, W.J. 2000. Island edifice failures and associated tsunami hazards. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 157, 899-955. M
  • Marti, J., Mitjavila, J. & Arana, V. 1994. Stratigraphy, structure and geo-chronology of the Las Canadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Geological Magazine, 131, 715-727.
  • Rihm, R., et al 1998. Volcanoes and landslides in the Canaries. NERC News, Summer 1998, 16-17. M
  • Smoot, N.C. 1995. Mass wasting and subaerial weathering in guyot formation: the Hawaiian and Canary ridges as examples. Geomorphology, 14, 29-41.
  • Solana, M.C. and Aparicio, A. 1999. Reconstruction of the 1706 Montana Negra eruption. Emergency procedures for Garachico and El Tanque, Tenerife, Canary Islands. In, Firth, C.R., and McGuire, W.J. (eds), Volcanoes in the Quaternary, Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 161, 209-216. M
  • Thorpe, R.S. & Brown, G.C. 1985. The Field Description of Igneous Rocks. Wiley, Chichester.
  • Valentin, A. et al 1990. Geochemical and geothermal constraints on magma bodies associated with historic activity, Tenerife. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 44, 251-264. M

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