Discovering the Chesapeake : the history of an ecosystem / edited by Philip D. Curtin, Grace S. Brush, and George W. Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curtin, Philip D.

Brush, Grace S. (Grace Somers)

Fisher, George Wescott, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Human ecology.

Natural history--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Natural history.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7517-X

OCLC:

51504255