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200 00$aDiscovering the Chesapeake $ethe history of an ecosystem /$fedited by Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBaltimore, Md. ;$aLondon $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2001
215   $a1 online resource (416 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a0-8018-6468-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a""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""
327   $a""Chapter Six: Living along the a???Great Shellfish Baya???: 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""
327   $a""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""
330   $aIn 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.
606   $aHuman ecology$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
606   $aNatural history$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
606   $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
615  0$aHuman ecology
615  0$aNatural history
615  0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on
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701   $aCurtin$b Philip D$0133933
701   $aBrush$b Grace S$g(Grace Somers)$01699254
701   $aFisher$b George Wescott$f1937-$0993128
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