Transient landscapes : insights on a changing planet / / Ellen Wohl
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 551.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Geodynamics |
| Landscape changes | |
| Environmental geomorphology | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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, 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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transient landscapes |
| ISBN: | 1-4571-9436-8 |
| 1-60732-369-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808026103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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