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Shrub-steppe : balance and change in a semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem /
Owing to man-made intervention, the shrub-steppe now represents a rapidly disappearing landscape in the arid regions of North America. This book represents a systems-level study of ecological variables affecting water balance, and responses to perturbation. The study focused on a very large, protect...
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
1988.
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| Colección: | Developments in agricultural and managed-forest ecology ;
20. |
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| 520 | |a Owing to man-made intervention, the shrub-steppe now represents a rapidly disappearing landscape in the arid regions of North America. This book represents a systems-level study of ecological variables affecting water balance, and responses to perturbation. The study focused on a very large, protected, landscape unit, comprising a natural ``watershed'' area located in the semi-arid western United States. Long-term and concurrent data sets were established with a view towards establishing system-level responses to manipulative interventions, and natural perturbations like wildfire. These data sets were established for micrometeorology, climatology, mineral cycling in soils, nutrient and mineral pathways in springs and streams, vegetational dynamics, and population changes on the site. In synthesizing nearly twenty years of data, the more interesting ecosystem level responses concerned vegetational recovery and water balance. For instance, the synthesis uniquely demonstrates the interaction of biotic and non-biotic factors and their integrated effect on regional water balance. However, special attention was also paid to species diversity and the genetic resource pool represented at this site. This book will be of primary interest as a reference resource to land managers and wildlife specialists, and as a research study for scientists interested in systems-level ecology. Conservation-minded citizens who take more than a cursory interest in ecology will also find it interesting. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover; shrub-steppe: balance and change in a semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: SHRUB-STEPPE LANDS; HISTORY; THE ARID LAND ECOLOGY RESERVE: STUDY SITE FOR THIS BOOK; THE ARID LAND ECOLOGY RESERVE AS A STUDY SITE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. CLIMATE OF THE HANFORD SITE; Section I. Meteorological Data Base; Section II. Climatic Patterns at the Hanford Site; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. SOILS: CARBON AND MINERAL CYCLING PROCESSES; Section I. Occurrence and Distribution of Soils; Section II. Physiochemical Properties | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Section III. Carbon Cycling: Influence of Environmental FactorsSection IV. Relationships of Carbon Cycling to Mineral Weathering and Mobilization; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. WATER BALANCE; Section I. General Principles Applicable to Arid Sites; Section II. Microclimatology of the ALE Reserve: Data Bases; Section III. Model Simulations; Section IV. Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. SPRINGS AND STREAMS; Section I. Physical and Chemical Characterization; Section II. Biological Investigations; Section III. Radionuclides as Indicators of Aquatic Ecosystem Processes; Section IV. Summary; REFERENCES | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 6. PLANT COMMUNITIES: CHARACTERISTICS AND RESPONSESSection I. Characteristics of Contrasting Shrub-Steppe Plant Communities; Section II. Responses of Plants and Plant Communities to Disturbances; Section III. Radionuclides as Indicators of Biological Fate and Transport of Materials; Section IV. Summary; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL HABITATS AND POPULATION RESPONSES; Section I. Mammals and Reptiles; Section II. Birds; Section III. Insects and Related Arthropods; Section IV. Animals as Indicators of Radionuclide and Chemical Contamination; REFERENCES | |
| 505 | 8 | |a CHAPTER 8. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ECOSYSTEM DISTRUBANCE AND RECOVERYSection I. Concepts of Response and Recovery; Section II. Characterization of Disturbance and Stress in the Shrub-Steppe Ecosystem; Section III. Future Research Needs; REFERENCES; EPILOG | |
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