Book Details
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Chesapeake Ecosystem - Its Geological Heritage
Chapter 2. Climate and Climate History in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Chapter 3. Forests before
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Chesapeake Ecosystem - Its Geological Heritage
Chapter 2. Climate and Climate History in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Chapter 3. Forests before and after the Colonial Encounter
Chapter 4. Human Influences on the Physical Characteristics of the Chesapeake Bay
Chapter 5. A Long-Term History of Terrestrial Birds and Mammals in the Chesapeake-Susquehanna Watershed
Chapter 6. Living along the "Great Shellfish Bay" - The Relationship between Prehistoric Peoples and the Chesapeake
Chapter 7. Human Biology of Populations in the Chesapeake Watershed
Chapter 8. A Useful Arcadia - European Colonists as Biotic Factors in Chesapeake Forests Timothy Silver
Chapter 9. Reconstructing the Colonial Environment of the Upper Chesapeake Watershed
Chapter 10. Human Influences on Aquatic Resources in the Chesapeake Bay
Chapter 11. Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Impact of European Agriculture, 1620-1820
Chapter 12. Chesapeake Gardens and Botanical Frontiers
Chapter 13. Genteel Erosion - The Ecological Consequences of Agrarian Reform in the Chesapeake, 1730-1840
Chapter 14. Farming, Disease, and Change in the Chesapeake Ecosystem
Chapter 15. Bird Populations of the Chesapeake Bay Region 350 Years of Change
Commentary - Reading the Palimpsest
Index