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UNINA9910779766803321 |
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Post Eric S (Eric Stephen) |
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Titolo |
Ecology of climate change [[electronic resource] ] : the importance of biotic interactions / / Eric Post |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Collana |
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Monographs in Population Biology ; ; 68 |
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Disciplina |
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Bioclimatology |
Climatic changes - Environmental aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Purpose, Perspective, and Scope -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A Brief Overview of Recent Climate Change and Its Ecological Context -- Chapter 2. Pleistocene Warming and Extinctions -- Chapter 3. Life History Variation and Phenology -- Chapter 4. Population Dynamics and Stability -- Chapter 5. The Niche Concept -- Chapter 6. Community Dynamics and Stability -- Chapter 7. Biodiversity, Distributions, and Extinction -- Chapter 8. Ecosystem Function and Dynamics -- Chapter 9. Brief Remarks on Some Especially Important Considerations -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the primary driver of ecological responses to climate change across all levels of biological organization. Eric Post's synthesis and analyses of ecological consequences of climate change extend from the Late Pleistocene to the present, and through the next century of projected warming. His investigation is grounded in classic themes of enduring interest in ecology, but developed around novel conceptual and mathematical models of observed and predicted dynamics. Using stability theory as a recurring theme, Post argues that |
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the magnitude of climatic variability may be just as important as the magnitude and direction of change in determining whether populations, communities, and species persist. He urges a more refined consideration of species interactions, emphasizing important distinctions between lateral and vertical interactions and their disparate roles in shaping responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to climate change. |
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UNINA9910782560403321 |
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When war becomes personal [[electronic resource] ] : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq / / edited by Donald Anderson |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AndersonDonald <1946 July 9-> |
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Soldiers - United States |
Soldiers' writings, American |
United States History, Military Anecdotes |
United States Armed Forces Biography Anecdotes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; War, Memory, Imagination: A Prologue; Visions of War, Dreams of Peace; A Civil War Memoir; My Chickamauga; My Father at War; Hang the Enola Gay; A Boy's Blitz; Notes from Ban Me Thuot; A Different Species of Time; Voices; A Boatman's Story; Shadow Soldier; Wandering Souls; Quarry; Things to Pack When You're Bound for Baghdad; Canon Fodder: An Epilogue; Contributors |
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Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. Alvord White Clements-himself a veteran of the Second World War-introduces his grandfather Isaac N. Clements's Civil War memoir; the novelist Paul West writes of his father, |
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a British veteran of World War I, as well as of his own boyhood recollections of the London Blitz. John Wolfe details the life-changing and life-threatening injuries he sustained in Vietnam and the hallucinations he experienced afterward. Second Gulf War veteran |
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