Dr. Tom Rooney, along with his co-editor Don Waller at the University of Wisconsin, published "The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife." The book's thirty chapters examine changes in Wisconsin over the past several decades. Individual chapters explore changes in habitats like wetlands, prairies, lakes, and forests, while others focus on particular taxonomic groups like birds, reptiles, mammals, fish, and plants. This book is the first in North America to examine how global change--cumulative land use change, biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, and climate change--is influencing ecosystems across an entire state.
This book was supported by grant from the National Science Foundation and published by the University of Chicago Press.
