LEADER 03933nam 22005895 450 001 9910298300903321 005 20200706071617.0 010 $a3-319-01544-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-01544-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001152827 035 $a(EBL)1592042 035 $a(OCoLC)902406331 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001049056 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11992799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001049056 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11016622 035 $a(PQKB)10277460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1592042 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-01544-6 035 $a(PPN)176104364 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001152827 100 $a20131026d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTewkesbury Walks $eAn Exploration of Biogeography and Evolution /$fby Bernard Michaux 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (108 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-01543-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aAvon and Severn valleys loop -- Getting acquainted with nature -- Coombe Hill -- Apperley Deerhurst -- Mythe Bridge -- Forthampton -- Bushley -- Tewkesbury Ham -- Oxenton Hill -- Bredon Hill -- Malvern Hills -- Changing Seasons.                . 330 $aThe book is composed of eight chapters, each of which are organised as walks around the Tewkesbury (UK) countryside, which move from the specific to increasingly broader ideas. So, the MS starts with an individual?s relationship to their environment (Avon and Severn Valleys Loop) that leads to a description of conservation issues at local, national and international levels, and ultimately to a discussion of the importance of Citizen Science (Coombe Hill ? Apperley ?Deerhurst). The following chapter (Mythe Bridge ? Forthampton ? Tewkesbury) looks at science as it is actually practiced and its role in modern society by an analysis of the theory of Continental Drift and a biography of Alfred Wegener. This is a story that really deserves a much wider audience, as the idea was, in my opinion, as revolutionary as general relativity or quantum mechanics, and Wegener himself was such a heroic character. The following chapter (Tewkesbury Ham) also uses biography ? this time of Alfred Russel Wallace - to investigate his ideas about how animal and plant distributions are inextricably linked to geological change. Wallace was every bit as heroic as Wegener, lived an even more adventurous life, and also deserves to be more widely known and appreciated. 2013 is the centenary of his death and he will be much in the news this year, so it would be timely to publish an account of his life and work suitable for the general public. The chapters on Wegener and Wallace set the scene for a detailed discussion of biogeography. This has been an active area of research for the past 30 years and I think it?s about time that somebody wrote about what has been an intellectually exciting and profoundly significant development in our view of ourselves and the world we live in. . 606 $aEcology  606 $aEvolutionary biology 606 $aEcology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19007 606 $aEvolutionary Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L21001 615 0$aEcology . 615 0$aEvolutionary biology. 615 14$aEcology. 615 24$aEvolutionary Biology. 676 $a570 676 $a576.8 676 $a577 700 $aMichaux$b Bernard$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01065327 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910298300903321 996 $aTewkesbury Walks$92544718 997 $aUNINA