Title: Perspectives on the land use history of North America : a context for understanding our changing environment / by Thomas D. Sisk, editor.
Authors: Sisk, Thomas D.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Land use Environmental aspects North America.; Phytogeography North America.
Contents: Toward a land use history of North America -- Historical interrelationships between population settlement and farmland in the conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992 -- Assessing the impact of urban sprawl on soil resources in the United States using nighttime "city lights" satellite images and digital soils maps -- Changing patterns in the number of species in North American floras -- The Baltimore-Washington regional collaboratory land-use history research program -- Historical landcover changes in the great lakes region -- Presettlement and contemporary vegetation patterns along two navigation reaches of the Upper Mississippi River -- Natural and human drivers of biodiversity in the greater yellowstone ecosystem -- Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: techniques, long term data sets, and trends -- Biodiversity and land-use history of palouse bioregion: pre-european to present.