Michael O'Connell is

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at the

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. O'Connell is a member of the Palaeoenvironmental Research Unit and a member of the

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. His areas of interests include past environments, past climate change, long-term human impact and late-glacial and

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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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Oconnell, Michael People from County Galway Living people Academics of the University of Galway 20th-century Irish botanists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Irish botanists