- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Plates
-
1 Assembling the Puzzle -
Part One: Perspectives -
2 The View from Man Mound -
3 The Challenge of Unveiling the Invisible Present -
4 Thinking Like a Flower: Phenology and Climate Change at the Leopold Shack -
Part Two: Changing Plant Communities -
5 Broad-Scale Change in the Northern Forests: From Past to Present -
6 Plant Species Diversity in the Once and Future Northwoods -
7 From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands -
8 Savanna and Prairie: Requiem for the Past, Hope for the Future -
9 Plant Communities of Great Lakes Islands -
10 Patterns in Wisconsin Lichen Diversity -
11 How Have Wisconsin's Lichen Communities Changed? -
Part Three: Changing Waters and the Land-Water Interface -
12 Great Lakes Ecosystems: Invasions, Food Web Dynamics, and the Challenge of Ecological Restoration -
13 Documenting and Halting Declines of Nongame Fishes in Southern Wisconsin -
14 Change in Wisconsin's Coastal Wetlands -
15 Southern Wisconsin's Herbaceous Wetlands: Their Recent History and Precarious Future -
16 Shifting Plants in Wisconsin Lakes -
17 Changes in the Wisconsin River and its Floodplain -
Part Four: Changing Animal Communities -
18 Changes in Mammalian Carnivore Populations -
19 Deer as Both a Cause and Reflection of Ecological Change -
20 Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Communities -
21 Two Centuries of Changes in Grassland Bird Populations and Their Habitats in Wisconsin -
22 Wisconsin's Changing Bird Communities -
23 Changes in the Butterfly and Moth Fauna -
Part Five: Nature Meets Us: The Social and Political Context -
24 Public Lands and Waters and Changes in Conservation -
25 Urbanization and Ecological Change in Milwaukee County -
26 Ecological Footprints of Urbanization and Sprawl: Toward a City Ethic -
27 Influences of Policy, Planning, and Management on Ecological Change -
Part Six: Trajectories -
28 Seeking Adaptive Change in Wisconsin's Ecosystems -
29 Forecasting Species Invasions in Wisconsin Lakes and Streams -
30 Nonnmative Terrestrial Species Invasions -
31 The Potential Futures of Wisconsin's Forested Landscapes -
32 The Big Picture - Glossary
- Scientific Names
- Index
From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands
From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands
- Chapter:
- (p.91) 7 From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands
- Source:
- The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife
- Author(s):
David Rogers
Thomas P. Rooney
Rich Henderson
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter examines changes in southern Wisconsin forests. It reports large declines in native plant diversity since the Curtis surveys, greater invasions of exotics, and more homogenization. Forest fragmentation and deer clearly play roles here, but so do the changes set in motion 150 years ago when fire suppression allowed oak woodlands to replace oak savannas. As tree canopies close with succession, these oak woodlands are further displaced by maples and other, more shade-tolerant trees. Shadier understories that rarely burn exclude, in turn, the oak seedlings that could regenerate oak woodlands along with the sun-loving forest herbs that once thrived there.
Keywords: native plant diversity, Curtis surveys, homogenization, forest fragmentation, deer, fire suppression, oak savannas, oak woodlands
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Plates
-
1 Assembling the Puzzle -
Part One: Perspectives -
2 The View from Man Mound -
3 The Challenge of Unveiling the Invisible Present -
4 Thinking Like a Flower: Phenology and Climate Change at the Leopold Shack -
Part Two: Changing Plant Communities -
5 Broad-Scale Change in the Northern Forests: From Past to Present -
6 Plant Species Diversity in the Once and Future Northwoods -
7 From the Prairie-Forest Mosaic to the Forest: Dynamics of Southern Wisconsin Woodlands -
8 Savanna and Prairie: Requiem for the Past, Hope for the Future -
9 Plant Communities of Great Lakes Islands -
10 Patterns in Wisconsin Lichen Diversity -
11 How Have Wisconsin's Lichen Communities Changed? -
Part Three: Changing Waters and the Land-Water Interface -
12 Great Lakes Ecosystems: Invasions, Food Web Dynamics, and the Challenge of Ecological Restoration -
13 Documenting and Halting Declines of Nongame Fishes in Southern Wisconsin -
14 Change in Wisconsin's Coastal Wetlands -
15 Southern Wisconsin's Herbaceous Wetlands: Their Recent History and Precarious Future -
16 Shifting Plants in Wisconsin Lakes -
17 Changes in the Wisconsin River and its Floodplain -
Part Four: Changing Animal Communities -
18 Changes in Mammalian Carnivore Populations -
19 Deer as Both a Cause and Reflection of Ecological Change -
20 Changes in Amphibian and Reptile Communities -
21 Two Centuries of Changes in Grassland Bird Populations and Their Habitats in Wisconsin -
22 Wisconsin's Changing Bird Communities -
23 Changes in the Butterfly and Moth Fauna -
Part Five: Nature Meets Us: The Social and Political Context -
24 Public Lands and Waters and Changes in Conservation -
25 Urbanization and Ecological Change in Milwaukee County -
26 Ecological Footprints of Urbanization and Sprawl: Toward a City Ethic -
27 Influences of Policy, Planning, and Management on Ecological Change -
Part Six: Trajectories -
28 Seeking Adaptive Change in Wisconsin's Ecosystems -
29 Forecasting Species Invasions in Wisconsin Lakes and Streams -
30 Nonnmative Terrestrial Species Invasions -
31 The Potential Futures of Wisconsin's Forested Landscapes -
32 The Big Picture - Glossary
- Scientific Names
- Index
