The vanishing present
Subtitle: Wisconsin's changing lands, waters, and wildlife
By: edited by Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney.
Contributors: Waller, Donald M.; Rooney, Thomas P.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780226871714
Subjects: Ecological succession -- Wisconsin; Biological diversity -- Wisconsin
Description: Like the rest of the world, Wisconsin has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population-growth and land-use change. This volume brings together a set of contributions from various disciplines to examine how human pressures on the state's changing environment have redefined its ecology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.