Table of contents for Big Thicket plant ecology : an introduction / Geraldine Ellis Watson.

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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface									 
Introduction: Keys to Understanding						1
Natural Thickets
Unnatural Thickets
Three Concepts
Chapter 1: Three Concepts		
The Traditional Big Thicket
The Ecological Big Thicket
The Big Thicket National Preserve
Chapter 2: The Ecological Big Thicket
	Geological History
	Plant Communities 
		Coastal Prairie Wetlands		
		Prairies				
		Longleaf Pine-Bluestem Range 	
			Longleaf Pine Uplands
			Pine Savannah Wetlands
			Beech-Magnolia-Loblolly Pine Association 
			Stream Floodplains 
				Upper Terraces
					Acid Bog-Baygall
					Arid Sandyland
				Lower Terraces	
					Sloughs and Oxbows
			Palmetto-Hardwood Flats
	Roadsides		
Chapter 3. The Big Thicket National Preserve 
	Beaumont Unit 		
	Beech Creek Unit 	
	Big Sandy Creek Unit 
	Canyonlands Unit				
	Hickory Creek Savannah Unit 	
	Neches Bottom-Jack Gore Baygall Unit 
	Lance Rosier Unit 							
	Loblolly Unit								
	Turkey Creek Unit 							
Stream Corridor Units: Big Sandy Creek, Menard Creek, Upper and Lower Neches River, Pine Island-Little Pine Island Bayou 	
Chapter 4. Man in the Thicket		
References
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Plant ecology -- Texas -- Big Thicket National Preserve.
Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.).