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Table of Contents
This website contains, but is not exclusive to, the contents
of the book: Sisk, T.D., editor. 1998. Perspectives on the land use history of North
America: a context for understanding our changing environment. U.S. Geological Survey,
Biological Resources Division, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003 (Revised
September 1999). 104 pp.
- Forward
by Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior
As published in Perspectives on the land
use history of North America: a context for understanding our changing
environment. USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003 (Revised September 1999).
- The LUHNA Program
by Tom Sisk
- Project History
Information on the history behind the LUHNA project.
- LUHNA Concept Paper
"An emerging national program - Land Use History of North America: Clues from the Past About Our Future"
- Initial LUHNA Workshop, August 13-14 1995
Participants, Agenda, and Summary
- Land Use as an Ecological Variable
by S.T.A. Pickett
- A Whiff of the Past
by S.T.A. Pickett
Part 1: Continental Perspectives
- Chapter 1
- Toward a Land Use History of North America
by Thomas D. Sisk
- Chapter 2
- Historical Interrelationships between Population Settlement and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992
by Margaret Maizel, R. Denis White, Stuart Gage, Leon Osborne, Ralph Root, Susan Stitt, and George Muehlbach
- Additional Figures - Chapter 2
Additional figures not used in the published version of this paper.
- Chapter 3
- Assessing the Impact of Urban Sprawl on Soil Resources in the United States Using Nighttime "City Lights" Satellite Images and Digital Soils Maps
by Marc L. Imhoff, William T. Lawrence, David Stutzer, and Christopher Elvidge
- Chapter 4
- Changing Patterns in the Number of Species in North American Floras
by Mark A. Withers, Michael W. Palmer, Gary L. Wade, Peter S. White, and Paul R. Neal
Part 2: Regional Case Studies
- Chapter 5
- The Baltimore-Washington Regional Collaboratory Land-use History Research Program
by Timothy W. Foresman
- Animation of urbanization in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor, 1792 - 1992
mpeg format (1095 K)
- Chapter 6
- Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region
by Kennith L. Cole, Margaret B. Davis, Forest Stearns, Glenn Guntenspergen, and Karen Walker
- Chapter 7
- Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River
by John C. Nelson, Richard E. Sparks, Lynne DeHaan, and Larry Robinson
- Chapter 8
- Natural and Human Drivers of Biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
by Andrew Hansen, Alisa Gallant, Jay Rotella, and Doug Brown
- Chapter 9
- Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends
by Craig D. Allen, Julio L. Betancourt, and Thomas W. Swetnam
- Additional Figures - Chapter 9
Additional figures not used in the published version of this paper.
- Chapter 10
- Biodiversity and Land-use History of the Palouse Bioregion: Pre-European to present
by Anne E. Black, Eva Strand, Penelope Morgan, J. Michael Scott, R. Gerald Wright, and Cortney Watson
- Additional Figures - Chapter 10
Additional figures not used in the published version of this paper.
- Regionalization Studies at Harvard Forest LTER
by David Foster, Emery Boose, and J. Aber
- For Teachers
(Under construction).
- Related Links
Links to sites related to land use history.
- Contacts
List of individuals who are interested in the LUHNA project and generally are working in related subjects.
- References
A bibliography of related publications.
- Figures and Tables
as Published in "Perspectives on the Land Use History
of North America: A Context for Understanding Our Changing Environment"
- Contributors
Authors of papers presented on this web site.
- Contact Us
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