Perspectives on the land use history of North America
Subtitle: a context for understanding our changing environment / by Thomas D. Sisk, editor.
Contributors: Sisk, Thomas D.; Geological Survey (U.S.). Biological Resources Division.; National Wetlands Research Center.
Series: Biological science report -- USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003.; Biological science report -- USG/BRD/BSR--1998-0001.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Reston, VA?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Land use -- Environmental aspects -- North America; Phytogeography -- North America
Notes: "September 1998."

"Technical Report Series"--P. [2] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: ch.1. Toward a land use history of North America; title: ch.2. Historical interrelationships between population settlement and farmland in the conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992; title: ch.3. Assessing the impact of urban sprawl on soil resources in the United States using nighttime "city lights" satellite images and digital soils maps; title: ch.4. Changing patterns in the number of species in North American floras; title: ch.5. The Baltimore-Washington regional collaboratory land-use history research program; title: ch.6. Historical landcover changes in the great lakes region; title: ch.7. Presettlement and contemporary vegetation patterns along two navigation reaches of the Upper Mississippi River; title: ch.8. Natural and human drivers of biodiversity in the greater yellowstone ecosystem; title: ch. 9. Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: techniques, long term data sets, and trends; title: ch.10. Biodiversity and land-use history of palouse bioregion: pre-european to present.