Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable l
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Edited by M.M. Caldwell, Logan, USA G. Heldmaier, Marburg, Gennany O.L. Lange, Würzburg, Gennany H.A. Mooney, Stanford, USA E.-D. Schulze, Bayreuth, Gennany U. Sommer, Kiel, Gennany
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Fritz L. Knopf Fred B. Samson Editors
Ecologyand Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates With 59 illustrations
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Fred B. Samson U.S. Forest Service RegionOne Missoula, MT 59807 USA
Cover illustration: The cover illustration was prepared by Dale E. Crawford.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ecology and conservation of Great PlaiDs vertebrates/[edited by] Fritz L. Knopf and Fred B. Samson. p. cm.-(Ecological studies; 125) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Vertebrates-Ecology-Great Plains. 2. Wildlife conservation-Great PlaiDS. I. Knopf, Fritz L. ß. Samson, Fred B. ID. Series: Ecological studies: v. 125. QL606.52.G74E36 1996 596'.045'0978-dc20 96-18352
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Preface
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpredictable local and regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects, often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as the "Great American Desert," this country was to be rushed through a
