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The concept of "shifting baselines"--Changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments--illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kennedy, Victor S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Coastal ecosystem health > Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Marine ecosystem health > Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
Littoral > Santé > Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
Écosystèmes marins > Santé > Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.)
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Coastal ecosystem health
Ecology
Marine ecosystem health
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) > Environmental conditions.
Chesapeake, Baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Conditions environnementales.
Atlantic Ocean > Chesapeake Bay
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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