Subtitle: Ecosystem and Landscape
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Subject: Forestry/Ecology/Biological Sciences
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-253-4
Pages: 684pp. 32 b&w photos, 56 illus., 52 tables, 24 maps
Description: A pioneering ecological portrayal of a landscape mosaic returns to print, with a new preface by the author

This illustrated survey brings together the work of forty-one experts who describe the people, geology and soils, climate, water and aquatic ecosystems, vegetation patterns, plants and animals, and animal communities of the remarkable 2,000 square mile forested landscape in New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens.

"Naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research."-American Biology Teacher

"This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need."-Science

"A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by 'the layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member.'"-Sierra Atlantic

"This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible."-BioScience

"This volume couldn't be more opportune, because it brings together a wealth of information on the air, water, land, and living resources of this huge, relatively pristine area at a time [1979] when the State of New Jersey struggles with laws and regulations to protect the barrens itself and when development from the east (Atlantic City) and the west (Camden) threatens to press into the area's edges. It will be interesting for some historian to look back at this volume a hundred years from now and see if it helped save the area or if it will have served only as a record of what was there before it fell."-The Underwater Naturalist

Richard T. T. Forman is the PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology at Harvard University and author of Landscape Ecology, Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-use Planning, and the award-winning Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions.