1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457775103321

Titolo

Ecological consequences of climate change : mechanisms, conservation, and management / / edited by Erik A. Beever and Jerrold L. Belant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-14775-9

1-283-34984-1

9786613349842

1-4200-8722-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeeverErik A (Erik Alan)

BelantJerrold L

Disciplina

577.2/2

Soggetti

Bioclimatology

Climatic changes - Environmental aspects

Ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Editors; Contributors; Cover Photo Credits; Chapter 1: Western Climate Change; Chapter 2: Amphibian Population Declines and Climate Change; Chapter 3: Minimizing Uncertainty in Interpreting Responses of Butterflies to Climate Change; Chapter 4: Advances, Limitations, and Synergies in Predicting Changes in Species' Distribution and Abundance under Contemporary Climate Change; Chapter 5: Mammalian Distributional Responses to Climatic Changes: A Review and Research Prospectus

Chapter 6: Effects of Climate Change on the Elevational Limits of Species RangesChapter 7: Climate Change and Sandy Beach Ecosystems; Chapter 8: Response of Western Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Variability and Change:: A Collaborative Research Approach; Chapter 9: Precipitation Climatology at Selected LTER Sites:: Regionalization and Dominant Circulation Patterns; Chapter 10: Dealing with Uncertainty:: Managing and Monitoring Canada's Northern National



Parks in a Rapidly Changing World; Chapter 11: Ensuring That Protected Areas Play an Effective Role in Mitigating Climate Change

Chapter 12: Resource Managers Rise to the Challenge of Climate ChangeChapter 13: Ecological Consequences of Climate Change:: Synthesis and Research Needs; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century. Climate fingerprints are being detected and documented in the responses of hundreds of wildlife species and numerous ecosystems around the world. To mitigate and accommodate the influences of climate change on wildlife and ecosystems, broader-scale conservation strategies are needed. Ecological Consequences of Climate Change: Mechanisms, Conservation, and Management provides a mechanistic understanding of biotic responses to climate change, in orde

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996207978503316

Autore

Morris Mary Lois Walker <1835-1919.>

Titolo

Before the Manifesto : The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris / / edited by Melissa Lambert Milewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2007

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-87421-547-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 639 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Life writings of frontier women ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

MilewskiMelissa Lambert

Disciplina

289.3092

B

Soggetti

Latter Day Saint women - Utah - Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (Utah) History

Salt Lake City (Utah) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-584) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction --Memoir --Diary --Epilogue.



Sommario/riassunto

Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world as the polygamous wife of a prominent Salt Lake City businessman, during a time of great transition in Utah. This account of her life as a convert, milliner, active community member, mother, and wife begins in England, where her family joined the Mormon church, details her journey across the plains, and describes life in Utah in the 1880's. Her experiences were unusual as, following her first husband's deathbed request, she married his brother as a plural wife in the Old Testament tradition of levirate marriage. Mary Morris's memoir frames her 1879 to 1887 diary with both reflections on earlier years and passages that parallel entries in the day book, giving readers a better understanding of how she retrospectively saw her life. The thoroughly annotated diary offers the daily experience of a woman who kept a largely self-sufficient household, had a wide social network, ran her own business, wrote poetry, and was intellectually curious. The years of "the Raid" (federal prosecution of polygamists) led Mary and Elias Morris to hide their marriage on "the underground," and her to perjury during Elias's trial for unlawful cohabitation. The book ends with Mary Lois's arrival at the Salt Lake Depot after three years in exile in Mexico with a polygamist colony.