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 ''

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'' 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