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The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney

Abstract

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest of the world, the Badger State has been transformed by urbanization and sprawl, population growth, and land-use change. For decades, industry and environment have attempted to coexist in Wisconsin—and the dynamic tensions between economic progress and environmental protection make the state a fascinating microcosm for studying global environmental c ... More

Keywords: temperate forests, grassland biomes, Great Lakes, Wisconsin, tallgrass prairie, oak savanna, broadleaf forests, coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9780226871714
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226871745.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Donald M. Waller, editor

Thomas P. Rooney, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Illustrations

Plates

1 Assembling the Puzzle

Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney

Part One: Perspectives

2 The View from Man Mound

Curt Meine

3 The Challenge of Unveiling the Invisible Present

John J. Magnuson

4 Thinking Like a Flower: Phenology and Climate Change at the Leopold Shack

Sarah D. Wright and Nina Leopold Bradley

Part Two: Changing Plant Communities

5 Broad-Scale Change in the Northern Forests: From Past to Present

David J. Mladenoff, Lisa A. Schulte, and Janine Bolliger

6 Plant Species Diversity in the Once and Future Northwoods

Thomas P. Rooney and Donald M. Waller

7 From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands

David Rogers, Thomas P. Rooney, and Rich Henderson

8 Savanna and Prairie: Requiem for the Past, Hope for the Future

Mark K. Leach

9 Plant Communities of Great Lakes Islands

Emmet J. Judziewicz

10 Patterns in Wisconsin Lichen Diversity

James P. Bennett

11 How Have Wisconsin's Lichen Communities Changed?

Susan Will-Wolf and Matthew P. Nelsen

Part Three: Changing Waters and the Land-Water Interface

12 Great Lakes Ecosystems: Invasions, Food Web Dynamics, and the Challenge of Ecological Restoration

James F. Kitchell and Greg G. Sass

13 Documenting and Halting Declines of Nongame Fishes in Southern Wisconsin

David W. Marshall and John Lyons

14 Change in Wisconsin's Coastal Wetlands

Jim Meeker and Gary Fewless

15 Southern Wisconsin's Herbaceous Wetlands: Their Recent History and Precarious Future

Joy B. Zedler and Kenneth W. Potter

16 Shifting Plants in Wisconsin Lakes

Stanley A. Nichols

17 Changes in the Wisconsin River and its Floodplain

Monica G. Turner, Emily H. Stanley, Matthias Bürgi, and David J. Mladenoff

Part Four: Changing Animal Communities

18 Changes in Mammalian Carnivore Populations

Adrian P. Wydeven and Charles M. Pils

19 Deer as Both a Cause and Reflection of Ecological Change

Scott Craven and Timothy Van Deelen

20 Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Communities

Gary S. Casper

21 Two Centuries of Changes in Grassland Bird Populations and Their Habitats in Wisconsin

David W. Sample and Michael J. Mossman

22 Wisconsin's Changing Bird Communities

Stanley A. Temple and John R. Cary

23 Changes in the Butterfly and Moth Fauna

Les Ferge

Part Five: Nature Meets Us: The Social and Political Context

24 Public Lands and Waters and Changes in Conservation

Mike Dombeck

25 Urbanization and Ecological Change in Milwaukee County

Lawrence A. Leitner, John H. Idzikowski, and Gary S. Casper

26 Ecological Footprints of Urbanization and Sprawl: Toward a City Ethic

Dave Cieslewicz

27 Influences of Policy, Planning, and Management on Ecological Change

Stephen M. Born

Part Six: Trajectories

28 Seeking Adaptive Change in Wisconsin's Ecosystems

Stephen R. Carpenter

29 Forecasting Species Invasions in Wisconsin Lakes and Streams

M. Jake Vander Zanden and Jeff T. Maxted

30 Nonnmative Terrestrial Species Invasions

S. Kelly Kearns

31 The Potential Futures of Wisconsin's Forested Landscapes

Robert M. Scheller and David J. Mladenoff

Conclusion

32 The Big Picture

Donald M. Waller

End Matter

Glossary

Scientific Names

Index