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Autore |
Wohl Ellen E. <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Transient landscapes : insights on a changing planet / / Ellen Wohl |
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Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-4571-9436-8 |
1-60732-369-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geodynamics |
Landscape changes |
Environmental geomorphology |
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Formato |
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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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Of Landscapes and Transience""; ""Solid as a Rock?: Geological Transience Out Far and In Deep""; ""Landscapes on the Edge""; ""Balance of Power: Camp Creek, New Zealand""; ""Facing the Subduction Zone: The Lost Coast of Northern California""; ""Himalaya: The Weather Makers""; ""Tortured Landscape: Mount Unzen, Japan""; ""Paradox: Sechura Desert, Western Peru""; ""Hell, 100 Years Later: Katmai National Park, Alaska""; ""Juxtapositions of Violence: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona""; ""Interior Landscapes"" |
""Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia: What Lies Beneath""""Stepped Landscape: Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa""; ""Islands of Rock: Kakadu National Park, Australia""; ""Retreating Ice: Mackenzie River, Canada""; ""Time and the Rivers Flowing""; ""In Transit: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica""; ""Summer�s Abundance: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska""; ""Survival Strategies: Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska""; ""Differing Scales of Transience: Wulik River, Alaska""; ""Transient Rivers: Bungle Bungle""; ""Amazon I: Flood Pulse of the World�s Greatest River"" |
""Amazon II: Várzea of the Rio Napo""""Amazon III: Igapó of the Rio Ampiyacu""; ""Black Water Swamp in Autumn: Congaree National Park, |
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South Carolina""; ""Flowing Rivers: Missouri River, Montana""; ""Negev Desert, Israel""; ""Motion and Fixity: Shortgrass Prairie, Northeastern Colorado""; ""Seven Billion and Counting""; ""Terra Nova: Hawai�i""; ""Old-Growth Forest Stream, Colorado Front Range""; ""Vernal Pond, Northeastern Ohio""; ""Watershed: Upper Rio Chagres, Panama""; ""Refuge: Coweeta Forest, North Carolina""; ""Altering the River�s Pulse: North Fork Poudre River, Colorado"" |
""Mountain Pine Beetles in the Colorado Front Range""""Living with Transience""; ""Selected References""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Landscape-the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place-is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient landscapes, Wohl introduces this idea of an ever-shifting, ever-transitioning global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through the earth's natural environmental and climatological process and which comes from human intervention"-- |
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