Author: Fritz L. Knopf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plovers
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Mountain Plover Studies, Pawnee National Grassland 1985-2007
Author: Fritz L. Knopf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plovers
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plovers
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Diet of the Mountain Plover at the Pawnee National Grassland, 1970-1971
Author: Paul H. Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pawnee National Grassland (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pawnee National Grassland (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Back from the Collapse
Author: Curtis H. Freese
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236637
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America's most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed--from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region's native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region's ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today's prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie's work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as "one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history."
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496236637
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America's most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed--from pallid sturgeon and burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting the region's native wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary history of the region's ecosystem over millions of years, as it transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet to today's prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and American Prairie's work to restore the habitat and wildlife, efforts described by National Geographic as "one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American history."
Ecology and Conservation of Grassland Birds of the Western Hemisphere
Author: Peter D. Vickery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891276118
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891276118
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates
Author: Fritz L. Knopf
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475727038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 was to be rushed through and cursed, a barrier that hindered access to the deep soils of the Oregon country, the rich minerals of California and Colorado, and the religious freedom sought in Utah. Those who stayed (for lack of resources or stamina) spent a century trying to moderate the ecological dynamics of Great Plains prairies by suppressing fires, planting trees and exotic grasses, poisoning rodents, diverting waters, and homogenizing the dynamies of grazing with endless fences-all creating bound an otherwise boundless vista. aries in Historically, travelers and settlers referred to the area of tallgrasses along the western edge of the deciduous forest and extending midway across Kansas as the "True Prairie. " The grasses thlnned and became shorter to the west, an area known then as the Great Plains.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475727038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
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 was to be rushed through and cursed, a barrier that hindered access to the deep soils of the Oregon country, the rich minerals of California and Colorado, and the religious freedom sought in Utah. Those who stayed (for lack of resources or stamina) spent a century trying to moderate the ecological dynamics of Great Plains prairies by suppressing fires, planting trees and exotic grasses, poisoning rodents, diverting waters, and homogenizing the dynamies of grazing with endless fences-all creating bound an otherwise boundless vista. aries in Historically, travelers and settlers referred to the area of tallgrasses along the western edge of the deciduous forest and extending midway across Kansas as the "True Prairie. " The grasses thlnned and became shorter to the west, an area known then as the Great Plains.
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A beautifully rendered reference guide to the Great Plains portion of the famous expedition through the American West highlights the explorer's remarkable encounters with previously undocumented flora and fauna as they moved through the Plains region. Original. (Biology & Natural History)
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A beautifully rendered reference guide to the Great Plains portion of the famous expedition through the American West highlights the explorer's remarkable encounters with previously undocumented flora and fauna as they moved through the Plains region. Original. (Biology & Natural History)
Current Ornithology Volume 17
Author: Charles F. Thompson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441964215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review (1) fields in which an abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, or (2) newly emerging fields that are gaining recognition as the result of recent discoveries or shifts in perspective, or (3) fields in which students of vertebrates may benefit from comparisons of birds with other classes. All chapters are invited, and authors are chosen for their leadership in the subjects under review.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441964215
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review (1) fields in which an abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, or (2) newly emerging fields that are gaining recognition as the result of recent discoveries or shifts in perspective, or (3) fields in which students of vertebrates may benefit from comparisons of birds with other classes. All chapters are invited, and authors are chosen for their leadership in the subjects under review.
Status of the Mountain Plover (Charadrius Montanus) in Alberta
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780778529224
Category : Mountain plover
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780778529224
Category : Mountain plover
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
PRAIRIEMAP, a GIS Database for Prairie Grassland Management in Western North America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geographic information systems
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The PRAIRIEMAP web site (http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov) contains links to partners, documentation of the data, and a directory of GIS data that can be downloaded.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geographic information systems
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The PRAIRIEMAP web site (http://prairiemap.wr.usgs.gov) contains links to partners, documentation of the data, and a directory of GIS data that can be downloaded.
Grazing and Haying Effects on Habitats of Upland Nesting Birds
Author: Leo M. Kirsch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description