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CHAPTER 01 INTRODUCTION TO THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS Bailey, R. G. Description of the Ecoregions of the United States. 2d ed. Miscellaneous Publication no. 1391. Washington: USDA Forest Service, 1995. Brooks, M. The Appalachians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Constantz, G. Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology. 2d ed. Morgantown: West Virginia Univ. Press, 2004. Fenneman, N. W. Physiography of Eastern United States. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1938. Ogg, J. G., G. Ogg, and F. M. Gradstein. The Concise Geological Time Scale. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008. Stephenson, S. L., ed. Upland Forests of West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1993. Weidensaul, S. Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2000. CHAPTER 02 HISTORY OF THE BIOTA Amjad, H. Fossils of West Virginia. 2 vols. Beckley, WV: Lulu.com, 2006. Gillespie, W. H., J. A. Clendening, and H. W. Pfefferkorn. Plant Fossils of West Virginia. Morgantown: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, 1978. Gillespie, W. H., G. W. Rothwell, and S. E. Scheckler. “The Earliest Seeds.” Nature 293 (1981): 462–64. Kenrick, P., and P. Davis. Fossil Plants. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2004. Kurtén, B., and E. Anderson. Pleistocene Mammals of North America. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1980. Pielou, E. C. After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991. Taylor, T. N., E. L. Taylor, and M. Krings. Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. 2d ed. Burlington, MA: Academic, 2009. FURTHER READING CHAPTER 03 CENTRAL APPALACHIAN VEGETATION Ayres, H. B., and W. W. Ashe. The Southern Appalachian Forests. Professional Paper no. 37. Washington: U. S. Geological Survey, 1905. Brooks, A. B. Forestry and Wood Industries. West Virginia Geological Survey, vol. 5. Morgantown, WV: Acme, 1911. Hough, F. B. Report upon Forestry Prepared under the Direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in Pursuance of an Act of Congress by the Commission of Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. Martin, W. H., S. C. Boyce, and A. C. Echternacht, eds. Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States: Upland Terrestrial Communities. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993. Maury, W. F., and W. M. Fontaine. Resources of West Virginia. Wheeling, WV: Register, 1876. Shreve, F., M. A. Chrysler, F. H. Blodgett, and F. W. Besley. The Plant Life of Maryland. Maryland Weather Service, Special Publication vol. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1910. Stephenson, S. L. “Appalachian Oak Forests.” In Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States: Upland Terrestrial Communities, ed. W. H. Martin, S. C. Boyce, and A. C. Echternacht, 255–303. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993. Wayland, J. W. The Fairfax Line: Thomas Lewis’s Journal of 1746. New Market, VA: Henkel, 1925. Whittaker, R. H. “Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains.” Ecological Monographs 26 (1956): 1–80. CHAPTER 04 MAJOR FOREST COMMUNITY TYPES Adams, H. S., and S. L. Stephenson. “Composition and Structure of Mid-Appalachian White Cedar Communities.” ASB Bulletin 38 (1991): 127. ———. “Old-Growth Red Spruce Communities in the Mid-Appalachians.” Vegetatio 85 (1989): 45–56. 255 FURTHER READING [3.146.255.127] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 22:14 GMT) Fortney, R. H. “Canaan Valley: An Area of Special Interest within the Upland Forest Region.” In Upland Forests of West Virginia, ed. S. L. Stephenson, 47–65. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1993. ———. “The Vegetation of Canaan Valley, West Virginia: A Taxonomic and Ecological Study.” Ph.D. dissertation, West Virginia University, 1975. Ludwig, J. C. “The Flora of Dolomite and Limestone Barrens in Southwestern Virginia.” Castanea 64 (1999): 209–30. Rentch, J. S., and R. H. Fortney. “The Vegetation of West Virginia Grass Bald Communities.” Castanea 62 (1997): 147–60. Rentch, J. S., R. H. Fortney, S. L. Stephenson, H. S. Adams, W. N. Grafton, and J. T. Anderson. “Vegetation-Site Relationships of Roadside Plant Communities in West Virginia, U.S.A.” Journal of Applied Ecology and Environmental Management 42 (2005): 129–38. CHAPTER 06 PLANTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Clarkson, R. B., W. H. Duppstadt, and R.L. Guthrie. Forest Wildlife Plants of the Monongahela National Forest. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood, 1980. Duncan, W. R., and M. B. Duncan. Wildflowers of the Eastern United States. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1999. Harvill, A. M., Jr., T. R. Bradly, C. E. Stevens, T. F. Wieboldt, D. M. E. Ware, and D. W. Ogle. Atlas of the Virginia Flora. 2d ed. Farmville, VA: Virginia Botanical Associates, 1986. Kartesz, J. T. A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States...

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