Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay : An Environmental History /

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The concept of "shifting baselines"--Changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments--illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded wildlife populations. In this important book, Victor S. Kennedy exami...

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Autor principal: Kennedy, Victor S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Marine ecosystem health.
Ecology.
Coastal ecosystem health.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
Écosystemes marins > Sante > Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
Littoral > Sante > Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
Marine ecosystem health > Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Coastal ecosystem health > Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Atlantic Ocean > Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Conditions environnementales.
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
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  • Shifting baselines in Chesapeake Bay, the immense protein factory
  • Why was Chesapeake Bay so productive and how has that productivity changed?
  • The spring fishery for shad and river herring was a hectic scramble
  • The world's greatest oyster fishery expanded, then crashed
  • Diamond-backed terrapins were once pig food, then a gourmet delight, and now a protected species
  • Uncontrolled market hunting of waterfowl led to mass slaughter
  • Sturgeon, a prehistoric high jumper, fell from memory
  • Blue crabs hung on tenaciously
  • Have diminished animal abundances remodeled the bay's food webs?

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