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The rain forests of home : profile of a North American bioregion /

The book brings together a diverse array of thinkers--conservationists, community organizers, botanists, anthropologists, zoologists, Native Americans, ecologists, and others--to present a multilayered, multidimensional portrait of the coastal temperate rain forest and its people. Joining natural an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schoonmaker, Peter K., Von Hagen, Bettina, Wolf, Edward C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Oceanography of the Eastern North Pacific / David K. Salmon
  • Climate of the coastal temperate rain forest / Kelly Redmond and George Taylor
  • Influence of geological processes on ecological systems / David R. Montgomery
  • Vegetation from ridgetop to seashore / Paul Alaback and Jim Pojar
  • Terrestrial vertebrates / Fred L. Bunnell and Ann C. Chan-McLeod
  • Streams and rivers : their physical and biological variability / Robert J. Naiman and Eric C. Anderson
  • Terrestrial/marine ecotone / Charles A. Simenstad, Megan Dethier, Colin Levings, and Douglas Hay
  • Pacific salmon : life histories, diversity, productivity / Willa Nehlsen and James A. Lichatowich.
  • Environmental history / Richard J. Hebda and Cathy Whitlock
  • Pre-European history / Wayne Suttles and Kenneth Ames
  • Traditional ecological knowledge / Nancy J. Turner
  • "Great raincoast" : the legacy of European settlement / William G. Robbins
  • Economic and demographic transition on the Oregon coast / Hans D. Radtke, Shannon W. Davis, Rebecca L. Johnson, and Kreg Lindberg
  • From ecosystem dynamics to ecosystem management / Ken Lertzman, Tom Spies, and Fred Swanson
  • Vision for conservation-based development in the rain forests of home / Peter K. Schoonmaker, Bettina von Hagen, and Erin L. Kellogg.