Using Historical General Land Office Survey Notes to Quantify the Effects of Irrigated Agriculture on Land Cover Change in an Arid Lands Watershed

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 531-548

  Dilts, Thomas E ^a   Weisberg, Peter J ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Olson, Teresa J ^a   Turner, P Lee ^b   Condon, Lea A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Nevada Department of Wildlife   (United States)

^c Otis Bay Ecological Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

arid environments; General Land Office survey; Great Basin; historical vegetation reconstruction; land use land cover change

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; FOREST COVER; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IRRIGATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SURVEYING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; UNITED STATES; WALKER RIVER;

POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 84860163247     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.641479     Document Type: Article

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