"Grasslands are an important biome, expanding world-wide with grass-dominated communities in deserts, woodlands and alpine areas above the tree-line. This book explores the exploitation of grasslands from the earliest time to the present and examines the impact of recent human i…
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Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects of climate change on world gra…
"Grasslands and Climate Change Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects…
"Grasslands and Climate Change Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects…
"Grasslands and Climate Change Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects…
This book looks at significant current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world, with their various production systems. There is a focus on recent technical advances and the prospects for further innovation,…
This book deals with several aspects of agricultural prairies such as geology, geographical settings, natural resources such as soil types, water and irrigation, and crop genetic stocks. Human resource, migration, and settlement patterns within each prairie zone have been descri…
Preface The Great Plains of North America: Natural Resources, Prairie Crops, and Agricultural Productivity Cerrados of Brazil: Natural Resources of Semi-Arid Prairies, Crops, and Productivity The Pampas of South America: Natural Resources, Environment, and Crop Production Europe…
Preface The Great Plains of North America: Natural Resources, Prairie Crops, and Agricultural Productivity Cerrados of Brazil: Natural Resources of Semi-Arid Prairies, Crops, and Productivity The Pampas of South America: Natural Resources, Environment, and Crop Production Europe…
Provides information on identification and uses of edible prairie plants.
The Destruction of the Bison explains the decline of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. In this interdisciplinary study, Andrew C. Isenberg argues that the cultural and ecological encounter between Native …