Vegetation Dynamics on the Mountains and Plateaus of the American Southwest

• Main Author: Vankat, John L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Plant and Vegetation, 8
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Landscape ecology.; Plant ecology.; Ecology.; Conservation biology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.; Landscape Ecology.

This book provides information essential for anyone interested in the ecology of the American Southwest, including land and resource managers, environmental planners, conservationists, environmentalists, ecologists, land stewards, and students.  The book is unique in its coverage of the hows and why...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• PART I Forests
• 2. Spruce-Fir Forest
• 3. Mixed Conifer Forest
• 4. Ponderosa Pine Forest
• PART II Woodland, Savanna, Grassland, and Shrublands
• 5. Pinyon-Juniper
• 6. Subalpine-Montane Grassland
• 7. Gambel Oak Shrubland
• 8. Interior Chaparral Shrubland
• Index.