Download or read book The Future of the Great Lakes Forest Region written by Susan Flader and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of the Great Lakes written by United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Forest written by Susan Flader and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lake States Forests written by William E. Shands and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forestry in the Upper Great Lakes Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Centuries of Change written by Alison Kate Paulson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropogenically driven environmental changes have led to far-reaching ecological changes across the globe. Development and land-use change have caused increased habitat loss and fragmentation and altered ecosystem processes, thereby threatening biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services. Further, disturbance regimes are shifting away from those that led to the development of contemporary plant assemblages. Over the past two centuries in the Great Lakes Region, plant communities have experienced unprecedented rates of change reflecting logging, land use change, fire suppression, overabundant ungulates, and climate change. My goal was to develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of forest change in the Great Lakes Region by focusing successively on the past, present, and future. I first evaluated shifts in forest composition across nine national parks between presettlement (1850s-1880s) and modern times (2008-2014). I next explored how plant functional traits moderate species responses to deer herbivory, soils, and light availability. Finally, I modeled species ranges to predict whether or not projected future climate conditions will be suitable for 30 common understory plants in the parks. Forests in Great Lakes national parks have shifted substantially since the 1800s. Preferred timber species like Pinus strobus and Tsuga canadensis and fire-adapted species like Quercus macrocarpa and Pinus banksiana have declined while aspen (Populus spp.) and maple (Acer spp.) have increased. These changes are associated with ongoing recovery from the Great Cutover, fire suppression, mesophication, and ungulate herbivory. Understory plant community composition shifted considerably following 10-15 years of deer exclusion, and these changes are determined, in part, by functional traits. Species responses to soil conditions and light availability also depend on plant functional traits, namely their mode of pollination, leaf dry matter content, and their habitat specificity. Future climates in the Great Lakes national parks are unlikely to support the currently dominant understory species. If these plants cannot adapt to climate change in place, plant communities in these national parks will continue to change in species composition as they respond to shifting climates. These regional shifts reflect challenges that plant communities around the world face as they respond to shifts in land-use, herbivory, and climate change.
Download or read book The Great Lakes Forest written by Susan Flader and published by . This book was released on 1983-06-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes Forest was first published in 1983.The upper Great Lakes region is an area with a common natural and human history in which the forest has been a prime factor. Known as the Laurentian Mixed Forest in the United States (it is a mix of coniferous and deciduous trees) and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest in Canada, it was subject to massive exploitation in the second half of the nineteenth century, when loggers cleared the forest's pines to build the railroads, farms, and cities of the Middle West. Another distinctive trait of the region is the fact that it lies north of the effective limits of agriculture. Generations of native Woodland Indians adapted to life in the forest, but the failure of white settlers to understand the area's agricultural limitations resulted in decades of wrenching social and institutional adjustment in the twentieth century.The 18 papers in this book were written in an effort to understand the relation between social and environmental change in the Great Lakes forest, a region that includes northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota and adjacent parts of Ontario. Contributors from the biological and social sciences, the humanities, and the management professions view the forest as a dynamic ecosystem that includes people, with their attitudes and institutions, as well as forest vegetation, waters, and wildlife. This multidisciplinary approach provides fresh and provocative insights into the history of the region.An introductory chapter by Susan Flader explores the concept of the dynamic ecosystem, contrasting it with earlier notions of human-environmental relations and showing how the concept serves as the book's organizing principles. The first if five major sections describes the Great Lakes forest from the perspective of the biological sciences and examines processes of change in vegetation and wildlife over time. These authors agree that human disturbance of the forest has had irreversible effects that now lock us into continued management in order to avoid even more costly and destructive changes in the ecosystem. Papers in the second section deal with the relationship of the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin to their forest homeland. The Indians have tenaciously protected this forest from dismemberment and exploitative logging, and today it remains the largest block of old-growth timber in the Lake States.The economic, social, and public policy implications of the logging era and its aftermath are examined in a section which also points to the contrast between land-use and resource policy in the U.S. and Canadian portions of the forest. "Status and Prospects" looks at present and future land use in the forest, and a final section, "Perceptions and Values," is a fascinating evaluation of human attitudes towards the forest.The Great Lakes Forest is published in association with the Forest History Society.
Download or read book The Once and Future Great Lakes Country written by John L. Riley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country is a history of environmental change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive. John Riley chronicles how the region serves as a continental crossroads, one that experienced massive declines in its wildlife and native plants in the centuries after European contact, and has begun to see increased nature protection and re-wilding in recent decades. Yet climate change, globalization, invasive species, and urban sprawl are today exerting new pressures on the region’s ecology. Covering a vast geography encompassing two Canadian provinces and nine American states, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country provides both a detailed ecological history and a broad panorama of this vast region. It blends the voices of early visitors with the hopes of citizens now.
Download or read book Kane Experimental Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of the Great Lakes written by United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Basin Framework Study written by United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change in the Upper Great Lakes Region written by Peter J. Sousounis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake States Regional Forest Resources Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outdoor Recreation in the Upper Great Lakes Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Needs in the Forest Economy of the Upper Great Lakes Region written by Hereford Garland and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Great Lakes Region written by Upper Midwest Research and Development Council and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Trends and Outlook for the North American Forestry Sector written by Adrian Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
