Discovering the Chesapeake : the history of an ecosystem /

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Annotation With its rich evolutionary record of natural systems and long history of human activity, the Chesapeake Bay provides an excellent example of how a great estuary has responded to the powerful forces of human settlement and environmental change. Discovering the Chesapeake explores all of th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Curtin, Philip D., Brush, Grace Somers, Fisher, George Wescott, 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Temas:
Human ecology > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Natural history > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Écologie humaine > Chesapeake, Région de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
Sciences naturelles > Chesapeake, Région de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Chesapeake, Région de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
HISTORY > State & Local.
Human ecology
Natural history
Nature > Effect of human beings on
United States > Chesapeake Bay Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chesapeake ecosystem : its geologic heritage / George W. Fisher and Jerry R. Schubel
  • Climate and climate history in the Chesapeake Bay region / John E. Kutzbach and Thompson Webb III
  • Forests before and after the colonial encounter / Grace S. Brush
  • Human influences on the physical characteristics of the Chesapeake Bay / Donald W. Pritchard and Jerry R. Schubel
  • Long-term history of terrestrial birds and mammals in the Chesapeake-Susquehanna watershed / David W. Steadman
  • Living along the "great shellfish bay" : the relationship between prehistoric peoples and the Chesapeake / Henry M. Miller
  • Human biology of populations in the Chesapeake watershed / Douglas H. Ubelaker and Philip D. Curtin
  • Useful Arcadia : European colonists as biotic factors in Chesapeake forests / Timothy Silver
  • Reconstructing the colonial environment of the upper Chesapeake watershed / Robert D. Mitchell, Warren R. Hofstra, and Edward F. Connor
  • Human influences on aquatic resources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed / Victor S. Kennedy and Kent Mountford
  • Land use, settlement patterns, and the impact of European agriculture, 1620-1820 / Lorena S. Walsh
  • Chesapeake gardens and botanical frontiers / Anne E. Yentsch and James L. Reveal.
  • Genteel erosion : the ecological consequences of agrarian reform in the Chesapeake, 1730-1840 / Carville Earle and Ronald Hoffman
  • Farming, disease, and change in the Chesapeake ecosystem / G. Terry Sharrer
  • Bird populations of the Chesapeake Bay region : 350 years of change / James F. Lynch
  • Commentary, Reading the palimpsest / William Cronon.

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