03673nam 2200637Ia 450 991082668510332120240416172617.00-8018-7517-X(CKB)111056486616176(EBL)3318061(SSID)ssj0000139780(PQKBManifestationID)11137164(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139780(PQKBWorkID)10029302(PQKB)11729132(OCoLC)51504255(MdBmJHUP)muse2496(Au-PeEL)EBL3318061(CaPaEBR)ebr10021509(OCoLC)923190849(MiAaPQ)EBC3318061(EXLCZ)9911105648661617620000525d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiscovering the Chesapeake the history of an ecosystem /edited by Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher1st ed.Baltimore, Md. ;London Johns Hopkins University Press20011 online resource (416 p.)Includes index.0-8018-6468-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One: The Chesapeake Ecosystem: Its Geologic Heritage""; ""Chapter Two: Climate and Climate History in the Chesapeake Bay Region""; ""Chapter Three: Forests before and after the Colonial Encounter""; ""Chapter Four: Human Influences on the Physical Characteristics of the Chesapeake Bay""; ""Chapter Five: ALong-TermHistory of Terrestrial Birds and Mammals in the Chesapeake-Susquehanna Watershed""""Chapter Six: Living along the “Great Shellfish Bay�: The Relationship between Prehistoric Peoples and the Chesapeake""""Chapter Seven: Human Biology of Populations in the ChesapeakeWatershed""; ""Chapter Eight: AUseful Arcadia: European Colonists as Biotic Factors in Chesapeake Forests""; ""Chapter Nine: Reconstructing the Colonial Environment of the Upper ChesapeakeWatershed""; ""Chapter Ten: Human Influences on Aquatic Resources in the Chesapeake BayWatershed""; ""Chapter Eleven: Land Use, Settlement Patterns, and the Impact of European Agriculture, 1620-1820""""Chapter Twelve: Chesapeake Gardens and Botanical Frontiers""""Chapter Thirteen: Genteel Erosion The Ecological Consequences of Agrarian Reform in the Chesapeake, 1730-1840""; ""Chapter Fourteen: Farming,Disease, and Change in the Chesapeake Ecosystem""; ""Chapter Fifteen: Bird Populations of the Chesapeake Bay Region: 350 Years of Change""; ""Commentary: Reading the Palimpsest""; ""Index""In the next few thousand years, the ice may form again and the Bay will once more be the valley of the Susquehanna, unless, of course, human-induced changes in climate create some other currently unpredictable condition."--from the Introduction.Human ecologyChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)Natural historyChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)NatureEffect of human beings onChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)Human ecologyNatural historyNatureEffect of human beings on975.5/18Curtin Philip D133933Brush Grace S(Grace Somers)1699254Fisher George Wescott1937-993128MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826685103321Discovering the Chesapeake4081366UNINA