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Big Thicket Plant Ecology: An Introduction, Third Edition

by Geraldine Ellis Watson
University of North Texas Press, 2006
Paper: 978-1-57441-214-7 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-485-1
Library of Congress Classification QK188.W38 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 581.709764157

TOC

    CONTENTS
    List of Illustrations
    Preface									 
    Introduction: Keys to Understanding						1
    Natural Thickets
    Unnatural Thickets
    Three Concepts
    Chapter 1: Three Concepts		
    The Traditional Big Thicket
    The Ecological Big Thicket
    The Big Thicket National Preserve
    Chapter 2: The Ecological Big Thicket
    	Geological History
    	Plant Communities 
    		Coastal Prairie Wetlands		
    		Prairies				
    		Longleaf Pine-Bluestem Range 	
    			Longleaf Pine Uplands
    			Pine Savannah Wetlands
    			Beech-Magnolia-Loblolly Pine Association 
    			Stream Floodplains 
    				Upper Terraces
    					Acid Bog-Baygall
    					Arid Sandyland
    				Lower Terraces	
    					Sloughs and Oxbows
    			Palmetto-Hardwood Flats
    	Roadsides		
    Chapter 3. The Big Thicket National Preserve 
    	Beaumont Unit 		
    	Beech Creek Unit 	
    	Big Sandy Creek Unit 
    	Canyonlands Unit				
    	Hickory Creek Savannah Unit 	
    	Neches Bottom-Jack Gore Baygall Unit 
    	Lance Rosier Unit 							
    	Loblolly Unit								
    	Turkey Creek Unit 							
    Stream Corridor Units: Big Sandy Creek, Menard Creek, Upper and Lower Neches River, Pine Island-Little Pine Island Bayou 	
    Chapter 4. Man in the Thicket		
    References
    Index
    
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