The Presettlement Piedmont Savanna - Philip Juras MLA Thesis 1997

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The Presettlement Piedmont Savanna - A Model For Landscape Design and Management - Philip Juras 1997
Table of Contents - Chapters: One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight - Works Cited - Appendices: A - B - C - D - E

The Presettlement Piedmont Savanna: A Model For Landscape Design and Management
Masters Thesis in Landscape Architecture
University of Georgia 1997
Philip Juras

Title Page, Thesis Committee, and Acknowledgements

Chapter I Introduction
	Description of Topic
	Methods
	Application
	Need For Research

Chapter II The Savanna
	World Wide
	The Eastern North American Savanna

Chapter III Savanna Landscape Preference
	Bioevolutionary Preference
	Prospect Refuge Theory
	Environmental Preference from Kaplan and Kaplan
	Other Preference Studies.

Chapter IV Piedmont Savanna History
	The Unbroken Forest Myth
	Piedmont Savanna Ecological
	Piedmont Savanna Ecology
	History

Chapter V Presettlement Piedmont Savanna Ecology
	Savanna Distribution and Function.
	Disturbance Mechanisms.
	Species Composition

Chapter VI Visual Characteristics of The Piedmont Savanna
	Aesthetic Perspectives
	Patterns and Structure
	Other Visual Characteristics

Chapter VII Design, Restoration, and Management of a Piedmont Savanna
	Introduction
	Restoration Design
	Management Considerations

Chapter VIII Conclusions

Works Cited

Appendix A
	Presettlement Forest Composition

Appendix B
	Potential Piedmont Savanna "Herbage" Noted By Bartram

Appendix C
	Herb Layer Species of a Xeric Hardpan Forest
	Herb Layer Species of a Diabase Glade
	Herb Layer Species of an Ultramaphic Outcrop Barren
	Herb Layer Species of a Mesic Pine Flatwoods
	Herb Layer Species of the Black Belt Prairie

Appendix D
	Burning Meadow Potential Herb Layer Species List

Appendix E
	Potential Tree Species of the Piedmont Savanna

List of Figures:

1.1	Suburban pine savanna

2.1	Southeastern grasslands also showing Piedmont

3.1	Preference framework table
3.2	Savanna elements illustrating coherence
3.3	Savanna elements illustrating complexity
3.4	Savanna landscape illustrating mystery
3.5	Savanna landscape illustrating legibility

5.1	Areas traversed by Piedmont explorers
5.2	"Map of Bethania Tract, 1766"
5.3	Patterns of Missouri prairies and woodlands
5.4	Distribution of Alfisols in the Piedmont
5.5	Piedmont distribution of high shrink-swell soils
5.6	Presettlement species composition and change table

6.1	Oak savanna
6.2	Pine savanna
6.3	Burkes mountain savanna
6.4	Post oak savanna
6.5	Aerial photos of Burkes mountain
6.6	Vegetation canopy distribution table
6.7	Vegetation canopy distribution illustration
6.8	Vegetation structure section
6.9	16 canopies just touching
6.10	Grove
6.11	Prairie showing drifts in herb layer
6.12	Savanna tree forms
6.13	Dark trunks and backlit grass
6.14	Presettlement Piedmont post oak savanna scene
6.15	Presettlement Piedmont lowland savanna scene
6.16	Presettlement Piedmont "prairie" scene

7.1	Site of "Burning Meadow" at the SC Botanical Garden
7.2	Site inventory
7.3	Mass space plan
7.4	Planting plan
7.5	Management units plan

	Cover Illustration