The silver lining : the benefits of natural disasters /

Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them "natural disasters." But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure? This lucid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reice, Seth Robert, 1947-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Ecological disturbances.
Natural disasters > Environmental aspects.
Perturbations écologiques.
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect de l'environnement.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General
Ecological disturbances
Natural disasters > Environmental aspects
Kaufman, Wallace.
Kissimmee River restoration.
Lake Mead.
National Park Service.
Nile River floods.
adaptation.
agriculture and water pollution.
aquatic insects.
benthic invertebrates.
biodiversity.
blackflies (Simuliidae).
building codes.
catchments.
chaparral.
climax community.
coastal development.
colonization hypothesis.
colonizing species.
competition.
decomposition.
discharge.
dynamic equilibrium model.
ecological worldview.
endemic species.
eutrophication.
extinction.
fire suppression.
flood management.
food chain.
fragmentation.
global warming.
greenhouse effect.
hurricanes.
insurance, rates of fire.
jungles.
limited membership.
limiting similarity.
marshes.
migration.
mutualism.
patches.
patchiness.
photosynthesis.
pollution.
rain forests.
redundancy.
reforestation.
reinitialization.
restoration.
schistosomiasis.
serotinous pines.
stability.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The more things change, the more they stay the same
  • Disturbance, patchiness, and communities
  • Recolonization, or How do all those species fill up the gaps?
  • Disturbance ecology and fire management : "Let it burn!"
  • Disturbance ecology and flood control
  • Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human needs
  • Human-caused disturbance : all disturbances are not created equal
  • Toward an ecological worldview
  • Epilogue : Living with disturbances.

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