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Donald Davidson

Emeritus Professor University of Stirling
Verified email at stirling.ac.uk
Cited by 4335

Multi-element soil analysis: an assessment of its potential as an aid to archaeological interpretation

CA Wilson, DA Davidson, MS Cresser - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Multi-element soil analysis is now an established technique in archaeology. It has been used
to locate archaeological sites and define the extent of human activity beyond the structural …

A land evaluation project in Greece using GIS and based on Boolean and fuzzy set methodologies

DA Davidson, SP Theocharopoulos… - International journal of …, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
In Mediterranean regions there is little experience in using GIS as an aid to land evaluation.
This paper reports a project in Greece which investigated the usefulness of such technology, …

[BOOK][B] The evaluation of land resources.

DA Davidson - 1992 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This book is an updated version of Soils and Land Use Planning (1980), and includes the
latest developments in land resource issues and techniques at global, continental and …

Effects of land use on soil erosion and nitrogen loss in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China

…, WW Zhao, QJ Zhang, DA Davidson - Land Degradation & …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the effects of land use and slope angle on runoff, soil loss and nitrogen
loss from hillslopes of the Loess Plateau in China. Farmland, wasteland and four forest …

An evaluation of multielement analysis of historic soil contamination to differentiate space use and former function in and around abandoned farms

CA Wilson, DA Davidson, MS Cresser - The Holocene, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
… Bryant, RG and Davidson, DA 1996: The use of image analysis in the micromorphological
study of old cultivated soils: an evaluation based on soils from the island of Papa Stour, …

An evaluation of the site specificity of soil elemental signatures for identifying and interpreting former functional areas

CA Wilson, DA Davidson, MS Cresser - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Soil multi-element analysis is now a routine technique employed to help answer questions
about space use and function in and around archaeological sites. The pattern of …

Orographic cold-trapping of persistent organic pollutants by vegetation in mountains of western Canada

DA Davidson, AC Wilkinson, JM Blais… - … science & technology, 2003 - ACS Publications
Conifer needles from mountain areas of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, were
collected from sites that ranged in altitude from 770 to 2200 masl and were analyzed for …

Quantitative autoradiographic evidence for insulin receptors in the choroid plexus of the rat brain

DG Baskin, B Brewitt, DA Davidson, E Corp… - Diabetes, 1986 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Techniques of in vitro receptor autoradiography were used to visualize binding of 125 I-insulin
on slices of frozen rat brain. Slide-mounted sections of frozen rat brain were incubated in …

The legacy of past urban waste disposal on local soils

DA Davidson, G Dercon, M Stewart, F Watson - Journal of Archaeological …, 2006 - Elsevier
Many attributes of present day soils can only be explained by reference to land management
in the historic past. This is particularly well expressed in the plaggen soils which occur …

Anthropogenic features

…, CA Wilson, IA Simpson, DA Davidson - … features of soils and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of human activities on soils can be examined at many spatial scales. This
chapter considers those human activities that directly influence soils and regoliths, such as …