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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
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(p.495) Index
- Source:
- The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
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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