North American Terrestrial Vegetation

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 720 pages
• Published by: Cambridge University Press
• Edition: 2nd Edition December 28, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0521559863
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521559867
• Book Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Product Review
Each chapter begins with a map of North America delineating the specific geographic area discussed. They cover the basic biology of North America's ecosystems, environmental issues and management problems. -- Book Description --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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 coveras 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