Grasslands of the World: Diversity, Management and Conservation

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest and hottest and the highest and coldest on earth as well as vast steppes and prairies in more temperate climes. It is the story of grasses successfully competing with forests and woodlands, aided and abetted by grazing herbivores and by humans and their use of fire as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367780933
• ISBN13: 9780367780937
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.7"