Nevada's changing wildlife habitat [electronic resource] : an ecological history / George E. Gruell with Sherman Swanson.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)ISBN:- 9780874178784
- Ecological disturbances -- Nevada -- History
- Landscape changes -- Nevada -- History
- Human ecology -- Nevada -- History
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Nevada -- History
- Desert ecology -- Nevada -- History
- Natural history -- Nevada
- Habitat (Ecology) -- Nevada -- History
- Nevada -- Environmental conditions
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- QH105.N3 G78 2012
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.
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