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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wohl, Ellen E., 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geodynamics.

Landscape changes.

Environmental geomorphology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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""; ""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781457194368

1457194368

9781607323693

1607323699

OCLC:

908127344