Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates / Edition 1

by Fritz L. Knopf, Fred B. Samson

Overview

The Great Plains prairie, historically the largest single terrestrial ecosystem in North America, is now also its most threatened. Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates relates changes in grassland ecosystems to the ecology of vertebrate animals inhabiting the prairie.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441928511
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Series:	Ecological Studies Series , #125
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Section 1. The Great Plains Landscape as Vertebrate Habitats.- 1. Landscape Gradients and Habitat Structure in Native Grasslands of the Central Great Plains.- 2. Wetlands of the Great Plains: Habitat Characteristics and Vertebrate Aggregations.- 3. Water Management and Cottonwood Forest Dynamics Along Prairie Streams.- 4. Comparative Ecology of Native and Introduced Ungulates.- Section 2. Ecology of Vertebrate Assemblages Within Grassland Landscapes.- 5. Historical Changes in the Landscape and Vertebrate Diversity of North Central Nebraska.- 6. Ecology of Fishes Indigenous to the Central and Southwestern Great Plains.- 7. Avian Community Responses to Fire, Grazing, and Drought in the Tallgrass Prairie.- 8. Effects of Fire on Bird Populations in Mixed-Grass Prairie.- 9. Ecology of Small Mammals in Prairie Landscapes.- 10. Stopover Ecology of Transitory Populations: The Case of Migrant Shorebirds.- Section 3. Conclusion.- 11. Conservation of Grassland Vertebrates.