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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

1. Great Plains

Social-Ecological Setting (Climate-Environment-Society) Natural Resources and Wildlife Aspects

verfasst von : Dennis S. Ojima

Erschienen in: Great Plains Regional Technical Input Report

Verlag: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

The Great Plains lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, rising gradually from about 98 ft (30 m) above sea level to over 5,000 ft (1,524 m) at the foot of the mountains. Before their widespread conversion to intensive agriculture, the Great Plains were noted for their extensive grasslands, from tall-grass prairie in the east to short-grass prairie in the western High Plains. The generally low relief of the plains is broken in several places, notably by the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which form the Interior Highlands, the only major mountainous region between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains (see Havstad et al. 2009).

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Metadaten
Titel
Great Plains
verfasst von
Dennis S. Ojima
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Buch
Great Plains Regional Technical Input Report

Print ISBN: 978-1-59726-429-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-510-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-510-6_1