This new edition is a major contribution to botanical and ecological literature. It provides comprehensive coverage of the major vegetation types of North America, from the arctic tundra of Alaska to the tropical forests of Central America. Each chapter describes the composition, architecture, environment, and conservation status of each ecosystem. In addition, information is included on the abiotic environment, paleoecology, productivity, nutrient cycling, autecological behavior of dominant species, environmental issues, management problems, the role of natural disturbance, and critical areas for future research. This new edition has additional chapters on freshwater wetlands, coastal marine wetlands, temperate Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Hawaiian Islands. Every chapter has been thoroughly updated and now includes information on habitat loss and restoration-preservation programs. This is an outstanding new edition of a well-received text and it is essential reading for students and researchers in plant science, ecology, and conservation.
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"Far more than a mere compilation of vegetation types, this book synthesizes our current understanding of the history, dynamics, and physical setting of the continent's plant cover...as a text and a reference for field scientists at all levels it is unsurpassed as a guide to the vegetation blanketing North America and to the processes structuring that vegetation." Ecology
"...will be the standard reference on North American plant communities for quite some time" Bioscience
"Replete with photographs, diagrams, graphs and tables, each treatment ends with extensive reference sections. Students, researchers traveling to new regions, and many other professionals will welcome this book." Choice
"An important book for academic as well as personal libraries." Northeastern Naturalist
"...this single treatise is an enlightening series of chapters... It goes well beyond the traditional overview of identification of dominant species and zonal synopses of the typical field guide or chapter in a textbook... each chapter stands alone as a useful primer to the patterns and process within a particular vegetation type... Any student of vegetation should read some of this volume, and it should be on the desk of any field researcher in North America." Charles V. Cogbill, Ecoscience
"This second edition of perhaps the most definitive textbook of North American ecology will by turns inform, delight, challenge and rebuke readers of many interests. Primarily a didactic achievement of a high order of scholarship by a large number of expert contributors, this fascinating volume will reward the casual reader and the intensely focused student alike with insightful surveys of the thousands of habitats in which vegetation flourishes or struggles to survive." Chicago Botanic Garden
"...will be the standard reference on North American plant communities for quite some time" Bioscience
"Replete with photographs, diagrams, graphs and tables, each treatment ends with extensive reference sections. Students, researchers traveling to new regions, and many other professionals will welcome this book." Choice
"An important book for academic as well as personal libraries." Northeastern Naturalist
"...this single treatise is an enlightening series of chapters... It goes well beyond the traditional overview of identification of dominant species and zonal synopses of the typical field guide or chapter in a textbook... each chapter stands alone as a useful primer to the patterns and process within a particular vegetation type... Any student of vegetation should read some of this volume, and it should be on the desk of any field researcher in North America." Charles V. Cogbill, Ecoscience
"This second edition of perhaps the most definitive textbook of North American ecology will by turns inform, delight, challenge and rebuke readers of many interests. Primarily a didactic achievement of a high order of scholarship by a large number of expert contributors, this fascinating volume will reward the casual reader and the intensely focused student alike with insightful surveys of the thousands of habitats in which vegetation flourishes or struggles to survive." Chicago Botanic Garden
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This new edition provides comprehensive coverage of the major vegetation types of North America from the arctic tundra of Alaska to the tropical forests of Central America. Each chapter describes the composition, environment, and conservation status of each ecosystem. This edition has new chapters on freshwater wetlands, coastal marine wetlands, temperate Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Hawaiian Islands. Every chapter has been thoroughly updated and now includes information on habitat loss and restoration-preservation programs.
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The Arctic is often viewed as a monotonous landscape with a limited number of vascular plants and an abundance of cryptogams. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
perhumid forests, fire return period, facultative seeders, first postfire year, midmontane zone, postfire flora, canopy breakup, resprouting species, midmontane forest, temperate vegetation types, nonsprouting species, heterophylla forests, madrean species, subhumid forests, herb barrens, intermountain lowlands, longleaf woodland, shrub heath tundra, southern mixed hardwood forest, postfire seedling establishment, sage subshrubs, saltmarsh species, tall shrub tundra, upland terrestrial communities, northern forest border Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New York, United States, Forest Service, Sierra Nevada, Puerto Rico, Great Basin, Costa Rica, North Carolina, Rocky Mountains, Range Mgt, New Mexico, University of California, Academic Press, Baja California, Los Angeles, Cascade Range, British Columbia, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, University of Hawaii, Arid Environ, San Diego, Great Plains, New England New!
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perhumid forests, fire return period, facultative seeders, first postfire year, midmontane zone, postfire flora, canopy breakup, resprouting species, midmontane forest, temperate vegetation types, nonsprouting species, heterophylla forests, madrean species, subhumid forests, herb barrens, intermountain lowlands, longleaf woodland, shrub heath tundra, southern mixed hardwood forest, postfire seedling establishment, sage subshrubs, saltmarsh species, tall shrub tundra, upland terrestrial communities, northern forest border Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New York, United States, Forest Service, Sierra Nevada, Puerto Rico, Great Basin, Costa Rica, North Carolina, Rocky Mountains, Range Mgt, New Mexico, University of California, Academic Press, Baja California, Los Angeles, Cascade Range, British Columbia, Cambridge University Press, San Francisco, University of Hawaii, Arid Environ, San Diego, Great Plains, New England New!
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- Washington, D.C. (World Cities) by James E. Davis on page 198, and page 280
- Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States, Lowland Terrestrial Communities (v. 2) by William E. Martin on page 446
- Washington, D.C. (Hello U.S.A.) by Joyce Johnston on page 353
- Oxford Regional Economic Atlas of the United States and Canada by Cartographic Department of the Clarendon Press on page 391
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- Vegetation Science in Forestry: Global Perspective based on Forest Ecosystems of East and Southeast Asia (Handbook of Vegetation Science) by Elgene E. O. Box on page 45 (1), page 45 (2), and page 45 (3)
- Land of Chamise and Pines: Historical Accounts and Current Status of Northern Baja California's Vegetation (University of California Publications in Botany) by Richard A. Minnich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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