Forests in Peril: Tracking Deciduous Trees from Ice-Age Refuges into the Greenhouse World

Plant geographer and paleoecologist Hazel Delcourt takes the reader on a personal journey to document the history of the forest from the last ice age through its development to the present. En route, the reader discovers methods of studying vegetation, collecting and interpreting data, and using the insights gained to project future changes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR