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The Biohistory of Florida.
From the Pleistocene to today-from vast prairies where shovel-tusked elephants roamed to vast orange groves interlaced with highways-Florida continues to evolve.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sarasota :
Pineapple Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Introduction; Florida Before Humans Arrived; The Florida Platform and its African Origin; Florida Emerges from the Sea; Animals Migrating to Florida across Land Bridges; The Ascendency of Grasses; Coping in a Sea of Grass; Humans Adapting to the Grass Revolution; From Beringia to Florida; Florida When Indians Reigned; The First Florida Natives; Consequences of Horse and Camel Extinctions in North America; Florida in the Archaic Period: Adapting to Life without Megafauna; The Woodland-Mississippian Transition: Maize (Corn) Farming in Florida; Maize Agriculture's Production Limitations.
- Florida After Europeans and Africans ArrivedImplications of the Columbian Exchange; Economic Incentives behind the Voyages of Discovery; Malaria and the West African Slaves; Europeans Arrive in Florida; European Incursions into Indian Territory; Spanish Mission Settlements and the Apalachicolas and Timucuans; Rice, Slaves, and the Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Florida; William Bartram's Descriptions of North Florida; Florida Becomes a Part of the United States; The Patriot War; The Onset of the Seminole Indian Wars; The Anglo-Appalachian Heritage of Florida's White Settlers.
- Florida at the Cusp of ModernityFlorida's First Highways; The Alachua Trail; The Bellamy Road; Florida's First Railroads; The Florida Railroad; The Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad; Henry Flagler and the Florida East Coast Railway; Henry Plant and the Savannah, Florida, and Western Railway; W. Chipley, F.R. DeFuniak, and the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad; Hamilton Disston and His Attempts to Drain the South Florida Swamps; The Punk Tree: A Misguided Attempt to Drain the Everglades; The Plume Trade: A Tale of Wretched Excess.
- Old-Growth Cypress and Pine Forests: Vanished Woodland ResourcesCypress; Pines; Scrub Cattle: Cowboys Herding Them on Florida's Open-Range Grasslands; Florida During the Anthropocene Epoch; Anthropocene Florida during the First Half of the 20th Century; The Power of Motion; Railroads; Roadways and the Internal Combustion Engine; Air Travel; Steamship Travel; Demographic Changes; Religious Intolerance; Racial Intolerance; Higher Education Institutions in Florida; The University of Florida Complex; Coping with Health Problems in the Early 20th Century; Enhanced Biological Comprehension.
- Anthropocene Florida TodayFlorida's Exponentially Growing Human Population; Exponentially Diminishing Fossil Fuel Resources; The Fossil Fuel Conundrum; Fresh Water is a Renewable but Limited Florida Resource; Science to the Rescue; The Citrus Conundrum; The Great Freezes; Citrus Tristeza Virus; Citrus Canker Disease; Citrus Greening Disease; A Tree's Perspective of Time in Florida; Selected References; Photo Credits.