Nevada's changing wildlife habitat
Subtitle: an ecological history
By: George E. Gruell with Sherman Swanson
Contributors: Swanson, Sherman 1952-
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780874178715; 9780874178784
Subjects: Ecological disturbances; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Desert ecology; Environmental conditions; Habitat (Ecology); Natural history; Landscape changes; Human ecology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Climate Changes and Consequences; title: The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs; title: The First People; title: pt. 2. Presettlement; title: Fire : A Natural Disturbance and Human Tool; title: Vegetation : A Sea of Sagebrush or Landscape of Great Variety; title: Wildlife : Abundance and Scarcity; title: pt. 3. Postsettlement; title: Climate : Averages and Extremes; title: Woodcutting : Boomtowns Before Fossil Fuels; title: Livestock Grazing : Herbivory and Range Depletion; title: Fire : A Changing Force on the Landscape; title: pt. 4. Changes on the Landscape; title: Vegetation : Resilience and Succession Meet Abuse and Decadence; title: Wildlife : Habitat Relationships; title: Management Choices; title: Appendix 1: Chronology of Changes in Vegetation, Fire, and Wildlife; title: Appendix 2: Nevada's Wildland Plants.