Conservation in Highly Fragmented Landscapes

1. Front Matter

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2. The Context: The Highly Fragmented Midwest

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Forest Communities of the Midwestern United States

      • John E. Ebinger

      Pages 3-23

   3. Savanna and Open-Woodland Communities

      • John B. Taft

      Pages 24-54

   4. The Tallgrass Prairie Mosaic

      • Kenneth R. Robertson, Roger C. Anderson, Mark W. Schwartz

      Pages 55-87

   5. Wetlands in the Midwest with Special Reference to Illinois

      • Stephen P. Havera, Liane B. Suloway, Joyce E. Hoffman

      Pages 88-104

3. Problems and Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Conservation in the Context of Non-Indigenous Species

      • James O. Luken

      Pages 107-116

   3. Native Pests: The Impact of Deer in Highly Fragmented Habitats

      • Roger C. Anderson

      Pages 117-134

   4. Mammals of Illinois and the Midwest: Ecological and Conservation Issues for Human-Dominated Landscapes

      • Philip C. Mankin, Richard E. Warner

      Pages 135-153

   5. Effectiveness of Small Nature Preserves for Breeding Birds

      • Scott K. Robinson, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Jeffrey P. Hoover

      Pages 154-188

   6. Impacts of Fragmentation on Midwestern Aquatic Organisms

      • Lawrence M. Page, Mark Pyron, Kevin S. Cummings

      Pages 189-212

   7. Midwestern Fire Management: Prescribing a Natural Process in an Unnatural Landscape

      • Mark W. Schwartz, Sharon M. Hermann

      Pages 213-233

   8. Community Succession, Diversity, and Disturbance in the Central Hardwood Forest

      • James S. Fralish

      Pages 234-266

   9. The Biogeography of and Habitat Loss on Hill Prairies

      • Mark W. Schwartz, Kenneth R. Robertson, Brian K. Dunphy, Jeffrey W. Olson, Ann Marie Trame

      Pages 267-285

   10. Fragmentation and the Role of Seed Banks in Promoting Persistence in Isolated Populations of Collinsia verna

       • Susan Kalisz, Lisa Horth, Mark A. Mcpeek

       Pages 286-312

   11. Effects of Livestock Grazing on Forest Habitats

       • Ann Dennis

       Pages 313-341

4. Conservation Strategies in Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 343-343

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   2. Terrestrial Nature Reserve Design at the Urban/Rural Interface

      • Craig L. Shafer

      Pages 345-378

   3. The Value of Small Preserves in Chronically Fragmented Landscapes

      • Mark W. Schwartz, Phillip J. van Mantgem

      Pages 379-394

Mark W. Schwartz Soon after we came into extensive meadows: and I was assured that those meadows continue for a hundred and fifty miles. being in winter drowned lands and marshes. By the dryness of the season they were now beautiful pastures, and here presented itself one of the most delightful prospects I have ever beheld; all low grounds being meadow, and without wood, and all of the high grounds being covered with trees and appearing like islands: the whole scene seemed an elysium. Capt. Thomas Morris. 1791 I am sitting in a 60-mile-an-hour bus sailing over a highway originally laid out for horse and buggy. The ribbon of concrete has been widened and widened until the field fences threaten to topple into the road cuts. In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois: the prairie.

• Marsh
• Meadow
• concrete
• conservation
• field
• fragment
• landscape
• science and technology
• wood

• Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, USA

  Mark W. Schwartz

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