Transient landscapes : insights on a changing planet

Transient landscapes : insights on a changing planet / Ellen E. Wohl.

"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 lands...

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Main Author: Wohl, Ellen E., 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
Subjects:
Environmental geomorphology.
Landscape changes.
Geodynamics.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Environmental geomorphology
Geodynamics
Landscape changes
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Table of Contents:
  • 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""; ""Summerâ€?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 Worldâ€?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: Hawaiâ€?i""; ""Old-Growth Forest Stream, Colorado Front Range""; ""Vernal Pond, Northeastern Ohio""; ""Watershed: Upper Rio Chagres, Panama""; ""Refuge: Coweeta Forest, North Carolina""; ""Altering the Riverâ€?s Pulse: North Fork Poudre River, Colorado""
  • Mountain Pine Beetles in the Colorado Front RangeLiving with Transience
  • Selected References
  • Index

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