num_pages: 276
description: Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses sedges and other herbaceous plants. Moist-soil wetland plants provide food and cover for a diversity of wildlife species including waterfowl and other waterbirds. Thus conservation and management of moist-soil plants has become a major component of wildlife conservation efforts in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and elsewhere in North America. The authors combined their extensive experience working in managed and unmanaged wetlands from southern Missouri to southern Louisiana to produce this beautifully-illustrated identification guide. A detailed yet user friendly field guide to identify moist-soil plants of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley has not been available until now.Management to encourage the growth of moist-soil plants is a common conservation strategy used by state federal and private landowners to increase food and cover for wildlife. Thus landowners must be able to identify moist-soil plants to meet their wildlife conservation goals. Landowners scientists wildlife biologists and students alike will welcome this useful resource which includes 600 detailed color photographs of plants images of seeds and tubers and other helpful information to aid in identification. The book includes subsections of major plant groups occurring in moist-soil wetlands including aquatics grasses broadleaves sedges and rushes trees and shrubs vines and agricultural crops.
language: English
title: A Guide to Moist-Soil Wetland Plants of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley
publisher: University Press of Mississippi