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- Big Thicket Plant Ecology: An Introduction, Third Edition
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Temple Big Thicket Series
summary
Originally published in 1979, Geraldine Ellis Watson’s Big Thicket Plant Ecology is now back in print. This updated edition explores the plant biology, ecology, geology, and environmental regions of the Big Thicket National Preserve. After decades of research on the Big Thicket, Watson concluded that the Big Thicket was unique for its biological diversity, due mainly to interactions of geology and climate. A visitor in the Big Thicket could look in four different directions from one spot and view scenes typical of the Appalachians, the Florida Everglades, a southwestern desert, or the pine barrens of the Carolinas. Watson covers the ecological and geological history of the Big Thicket and introduces its plant life, from longleaf pines and tupelo swamps to savannah wetlands and hardwood flats. “This is the work on the plant biology of the Big Thicket.”—Pete A.Y. Gunter, author of The Big Thicket
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. v-vi
- Chapter 2 The Ecological Big Thicket
- pp. 11-69
- Chapter 3 The National Preserve
- pp. 71-113
- Chapter 4 Man in the Big Thicket
- pp. 115-118
- References
- pp. 119-122
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574414851
Related ISBN(s)
9781574412147
MARC Record
OCLC
793511116
Pages
152
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No