Book Review — Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone, eds. 2018. Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management. Published by The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 344 p. Hardbound, $54.95. ISBN 978-0-8173-1988-5 Southeastern Grasslands: Biodiversity, Ecology and Management is a collection of 20 research and review articles that focus on the floristics, conservation, and ecological history of grassland prairies in the southeastern United States. The volume “was inspired by the” 2012 Southeast Prairie Symposium and is a varied tribute to a unique and disappearing biome that has been reduced to less than 10% of its original range. Human encroachment, climate change, and invasive species have virtually eradicated the open grasslands that once dotted the USA from east Texas to the Atlantic Coast. The book was written “with a broad audience in mind,” however, each chapter is written in a research format with Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections suggesting the more likely audience