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UNINA9910484912803321 |
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The Andean cloud forest / / Randall W. Myster, editor |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (X, 223 p. 61 illus., 43 illus. in color.) |
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Cloud forest ecology - Andes Region |
Cloud forests - Andes Region |
Biotic communities |
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1. Introduction: Randall W. Myster -- 2. Dynamics of Andean Treeline Ecotones: Between Cloud Forest and Páramo Geocritical Tropes. Fausto O. Sarmiento -- 3. ANÁLISIS REGIONAL EN ECOSISTEMAS DE MONTAÑA EN COLOMBIA:Una mirada desde la funcionalidad del paisaje y los servicios ecosistémicos. Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Julián Díaz and Tobias Leyva-Pinto -- 4. Ecohydrology of Tropical Andean Cloud Forests. Conrado Tobon Martin -- 5. Litterfall in Andean forests: Quantity, composition, and environmental drivers. Wolfgang Wilcke -- 6. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Ectomycorrhizas in the Andean Cloud Forest of South Ecuador. Ingeborg Haug, Sabrina Setaro, Juan Pablo Suárez -- 7. Nesting ecology of the Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana) in the cloud forest of Northwestern Argentina. Luis Rivera and Natalia Politi -- 8. Adaptive strategies of frugivore bats to Andean cloud forests. Adriana Ruiz and Pascual J. Soriano -- 9. Diversification and dispersal of Neotropical fauna: Processes and patterns in Andean species diversity. Juan C. Garcia-Ramirez and Angela M. Mendoza-Henao -- 10. Mapping Hydrological Ecosystem Services and Impacts of Scenarios for Deforestation and Conservation of Lowland, Montane and Cloud-Affected Forests. Mark Mulligan -- 11. Randall W. Myster. Conclusions, synthesis and future directions. |
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A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been |
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published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazon basin, for example. Here I take advantage of my many years working in ACF in Ecuador, to edit this book that contains the following sections: (1) ACF over space and time, (2) Hydrology, (3) Light and the Carbon cycle, (4) Soil, litter, fungi and nutrient cycling, (5) Plants, (6) Animals, and (7) Human impacts and management. Under this premise, international experts contributed chapters that consist of reviews of what is known about their topic, of what research they have done, and of what needs to be done in the future. This work is suitable for graduate students, professors, scientists, and researcher-oriented managers. |
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UNINA9910784214903321 |
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Autore |
Green Jeremy |
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Late postmodernism [[electronic resource] ] : American fiction at the millennium / / Jeremy Green |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
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1-281-36856-3 |
9786611368562 |
1-4039-8040-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Late Postmodernism and the Literary Field; 2 The Novel and the Death of Literature; 3 Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey, and the Future of the |
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Social Novel; 4 Late Postmodernism and Cultural Memory; 5 Pathologies of the Public Sphere; 6 Late Postmodernism and the Utopian Imagination; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation of literature to the margins of American culture. As a result, anxieties about readership, cultural authority and literary value have come to preoccupy a second generation of postmodern novelists. Through close analysis of several major novels of the past decade, including works by Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, Late Postmodernism examines the forces shaping contemporary literature and the remarkable strategies American writers have adopted to make sense of their place in culture. |
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