TY - BOOK AU - Gruell,George E. AU - Swanson,Sherman ED - Project Muse. TI - Nevada's changing wildlife habitat: an ecological history SN - 9780874178784 AV - QH105.N3 G78 2012 U1 - 577.09793 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Reno PB - University of Nevada Press KW - Ecological disturbances KW - Nevada KW - History KW - Landscape changes KW - Human ecology KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Desert ecology KW - Natural history KW - Habitat (Ecology) KW - Environmental conditions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Climate Changes and Consequences -- The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs -- The First People -- pt. 2. Presettlement -- Fire : A Natural Disturbance and Human Tool -- Vegetation : A Sea of Sagebrush or Landscape of Great Variety -- Wildlife : Abundance and Scarcity -- pt. 3. Postsettlement -- Climate : Averages and Extremes -- Woodcutting : Boomtowns Before Fossil Fuels -- Livestock Grazing : Herbivory and Range Depletion -- Fire : A Changing Force on the Landscape -- pt. 4. Changes on the Landscape -- Vegetation : Resilience and Succession Meet Abuse and Decadence -- Wildlife : Habitat Relationships -- Management Choices -- Appendix 1: Chronology of Changes in Vegetation, Fire, and Wildlife -- Appendix 2: Nevada's Wildland Plants UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780874178784/ ER -