Overview

Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape focuses on the relationship between the ecological and landscape aspects of Pine Barrens of New Jersey. The idea in this book is based from the discussions of Rutgers University botanists and ecologists at the 1975 American Institute of Biological Science meetings, and from the interest generated by the 1976 annual New Jersey Academy of Science meeting, which focuses on the Pine Barrens. This seven-part book starts with a short discussion on location and boundaries of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Part I covers human activities, from Indian activities and initial European perceptions of the land, including settlement, lumbering, fuel wood and charcoal, iron and glassworks, farming and livestock, and real estate development. The next part of the book describes sandy deposits, geographic distribution of geologic formations, and soil types with their ecologically important characteristics. Topics on hydrology, aquatic ecosystems, and climatic and microclimatic conditions are presented in the third part of this reference. Part IV traces the history of vegetation starting before the Ice Age and analyzes vegetation using different approaches, such as community types, community classification according to a European method, and gradient analysis. Plants of the Pine Barrens are briefly described and listed in Part V. The final part illustrates community relationships of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, and soil microcommunities. The book is ideal for ecologists, botanists, geologists, soil scientists, zoologists, hydrologists, limnologists, engineers, and scientists, as well as planners, decision-makers, and managers who may largely determine the future of a region.

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Author:   Richard T.T. Forman
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780813525938

ISBN 10:   0813525934
Pages:   654
Publication Date:   01 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Location and Boundaries of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Jack McCormick and Richard T. T. Forman 1. Human Exploitation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens Before 1900 / Peter O. Wacker 2. Plant and Animal Products of the Pine Barrens / James E. Applegate, Silas Little and Philip E. Marucci 3. Geology of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey / Edward C. Rhodehamel 4. Development of Pine Barrens Soils / John C. F. Tedrow 5. Soil Series of the Pine Barrens / Marco L. Markley 6. Mineralogy of Pine Barrens Soils / Lowell A. Douglas and John J. Trela 7. Climate and Microclimate of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / A. Vaughn Havens 8. Fluxes of Water and Energy Through the Pine Barrens Ecosystems / John Thomas Ballard 9. Hydrology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Edward C. Rhodehamel 10. Streams and Lakes in the Pine Barrens / Ruth Patrick, Barbara Matson and Lee Anderson 11. Nutrient and Hydrological Effects of the Pine Barrens on Neighboring Estuaries / James B. Durand 12. Vegetational History of the Pine Barrens / Calvin J. Heusser 13. The Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Jack McCormick 14. Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: A Phytosociological Classification / Hans Olsson 15. Vegetational Gradients of the Pine Plains and Barrens of Long Island, New York / Linda S. Olsvig, John F. Cryan and Robert H. Whittaker 16. The Pine Barren Plains / Ralph E. Good, Norma F. Good and John W. Andresen 17. Fire and Plant Succession in the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Silas Little 18. Vegetational Relationships of the Pine Barrens / Robert H. Whittaker 19. Leaky Ecosystems: Nutrient Fluxes and Succession in the Pine Barrens Vegetation / George M. Woodwell 20. Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida Mill.): Ecology, Physiology, and Genetics / F. Thomas Ledig and Silas Little. 21. Common Vascular Plants of the Pine Barrens / Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., John W. Braxton and Louis Hand 22. Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Vascular Plants of the Pine Barrens and their Biogeography / David E. Fairbrothers 23. Common Bryophytes and Lichens of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Richard T. T. Forman 24. Algae of the Pine Barrens / Edwin T. Moul and Helen Foot Buell 25. Mammals of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Leonard J. Wolgast 26. Birds of the Pine Barrens / Charles F. Leck 27. A Zoogeographical Review of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Southern New Jersey, with Emphasis on the Pine Barrens / Roger Conant 28. Fish of the Pine Barrens / Robert W. Hastings 29. Arthropods of the Pine Barrens / Howard P. Boyd and Philip E. Marucci 30. Soil Arthropod Microcommunities of the Pine Barrens / Daniel L. Dindal 31. Animal Communities of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Edmund W. Stiles 32. Ecological Research Opportunities in the New Jersey Pine Barrens / William A. Reiners 33. The Pine Barrens of New Jersey: An Ecological Mosaic / Richard T. T. Forman

Reviews

A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by aethe layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member.AE.--Sierra Atlantic Naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research.--American Biology Teacher This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need.--Science This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible.--BioScience

Naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research.--American Biology Teacher This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible.--BioScience This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need.--Science A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by the layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member. .--Sierra Atlantic

This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible.

Naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research.--American Biology Teacher A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by the layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member. .--Sierra Atlantic This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need.--Science This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible.--BioScience

This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need.--Science This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible.--BioScience Naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research.--American Biology Teacher A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by the layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member. .--Sierra Atlantic

Author Information

Richard T. T. Forman is the PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology at Harvard University and author of Landscape Ecology, Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning , and the award-winning Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions .

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