Michael O'Connell (botanist)

Michael O'Connell, Professor of Botany, National University of Ireland, Galway.

O'Connell is a member of the Palaeoenvironmental Research Unit, and a member of the Environmental Protection Agency. His area of interests include past environments, past climate change, long-term human impact, as well as lat-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.