Includes bibliographical references and index. Publication of this volume and companion volumes on aquatic and lowland terrestrial communities was sponsored by the Southeastern Chapter of the Ecological Society of America.

Oak-hickory-pine forests / James N. Skeen, Phillip D. Doerr, and David H. Van Lear -- Rock outcrop communities : limestone, sandstone, and granite / Elsie Quarterman, Madeline P. Burbanck, and Donald J. Shure -- Grass-dominated communities / H.R. DeSelm and Nora Murdock -- Oak-hickory forests (western mesophytic/oak-hickory forests) / William S. Bryant, William C. McComb, and James S. Fralish -- Mixed mesophytic forests / C. Ross Hinkle ... [et al.] -- Appalachian oak forests / Steven L. Stephenson, Andrew N. Ash, and Dean F. Stauffer -- High-elevation forests : spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, and associated communities / Peter S. White ... [et al.] -- The future of the terrestrial communities of the southeastern United States / Stephen G. Boyce and William H. Martin.