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| Author | : Michael G. Barbour |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 622 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780521559867 |
This second edition provides extensively expanded coverage of North American vegetation from arctic tundra to tropical forests.
| Author | : Michael G. Barbour |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 1034 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
Vegetationskunde, Pflanzensoziologie, Kalifornische Provinz.
| Author | : John L. Vankat |
| Publisher | : New York ; Toronto : Wiley |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1979-07-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
Describes the major vegetation types of North America and their ecological basis, emphasizing such environmental factors as climate, soil, topography, and fire. Part 1 outlines the basics of vegetation science (such as composition, structure, function); Part II considers each type of vegetation in terms of the background material in Part I. Examines major plant communities and dominant species, emphasizing species adaption to show the interrelationship between vegetation and environment. Each vegetation chapter concludes with a section on human impact. Includes suggested readings and over 125 illustrations.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Biogeography |
| ISBN | : |
This volume represents a first attempt at holistically classifying and mapping ecological regions across all three countries of the North American continent. A common analytical methodology is used to examine North American ecology at multiple scales, from large continental ecosystems to subdivisions of these that correlate more detailed physical and biological settings with human activities on two levels of successively smaller units. The volume begins with an overview of North America from an ecological perspective, concepts of ecological regionalization. This is followed by descriptions of the 15 broad ecological regions, including information on physical and biological setting and human activities. The final section presents case studies in applications of the ecological characterization methodology to environmental issues. The appendix includes a list of common and scientific names of selected species characteristic of the ecological regions.
| Author | : Alan Graham |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1999-03-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 019511342X |
This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic response, and methodologies. The history reveals a North American vegetation that is vast, immensely complex, and dynamic.
| Author | : Michael Barbour |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 734 |
| Release | : 2007-07-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0520933362 |
This thoroughly revised, entirely rewritten edition of what is the essential reference on California’s diverse and ever-changing vegetation now brings readers the most authoritative, state-of-the-art view of California’s plant ecosystems available. Integrating decades of research, leading community ecologists and field botanists describe and classify California’s vegetation types, identify environmental factors that determine the distribution of vegetation types, analyze the role of disturbance regimes in vegetation dynamics, chronicle change due to human activities, identify conservation issues, describe restoration strategies, and prioritize directions for new research. Several new chapters address statewide issues such as the historic appearance and impact of introduced and invasive plants, the soils of California, and more.
| Author | : Karel Prach |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2020-05-14 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108472761 |
Provides a comparative approach to plant succession among all terrestrial biomes and disturbances, helping to reveal generalizable patterns.
| Author | : James L. Stubbendieck |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 522 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780803293069 |
North American Wildland Plants is the sixth edition of North American Range Plants. This comprehensive reference contains the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America and will help individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals to identify wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. Each of the illustrations has been enhanced to maximize the use of this book as a field guide. Each plant description includes characteristics for identification, an illustration of the plant with enlarged parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature; life span; origin; season of growth; inflorescence, flower or spikelet, or other reproductive parts; vegetative parts; and growth characteristics. Brief notes are included on habitat; livestock losses; and historic, food, and medicinal uses.
| Author | : David Lewis Lentz |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780231111577 |
Together with experts in a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences--including botany, geology, ecology, geography and archaeology--Lentz investigates the history and effects of human impact on the environment in the New World before the arrival of the Europeans in the late 15th century. An Imperfect Balance offers an objective evaluation of "precontact era" land usage, demonstrating that native populations engaged in land management practices not entirely dissimilar to their European counterparts.
