Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the Midwestern and Eastern United States A Hands-On Guide /

• Main Author: Gardner, Harold W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Ecosystems.; Plant ecology.; Ecology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.

Tallgrass Prarie Restoration in theMidwest and Eastern United States: A Hands-On Guide describes all aspects of restoring tallgrass prairie. Outlined are techniques from creating a prairie from scratch to improving diversity of existing prairies. The importance of selecting species for soil type is...

Table of Contents:

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Part I: introduction
• Chapter 1-Introduction to the Prairie
• Part III: Native Prairie Species
• Chapter 2- Mesic soil and adaptive species
• Chapter 3- Dry-mesic to dry soil preferring species
• Chapter 4- Wet-mesic to wet soil preferring species
• Part III: Restoration
• Chapter 5- Restoration methods
• Part IV: Management
• Chapter 6- Prairie Management
• Other Recommended.-Reading
• Glossary
• Index.