Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates
. Ed(S): Knop, Fritz L. (Fort Collins, Co, Usa); Samson, Fred B. (Missoula, Mt, Usa)
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Hardback. The Great Plains prairie, historically the largest single terrestrial ecosystem in North America, is also the most threatened. This book relates the changes in grassland ecosystems to the ecology of vertebrate animals inhabiting the prairie. Editor(s): Knop, Fritz L. (Fort Collins, CO, USA); Samson, Fred B. (Missoula, MT, USA). Series: Ecological Studies. Num Pages: 334 pages, 33 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSTS; PSVS; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects, often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as the "Great American Desert," this country ... Read more
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects, often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as the "Great American Desert," this country ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Series
Ecological Studies
Number of Pages
323
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387948027
SKU
V9780387948027
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