Alaska's Changing Arctic

Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Streams, and Lakes
Herausgeber: Hobbie, John E; Kling, George W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The latest volume in the LTER series, this book presents the results and finding of the Long-Term Ecological Research site in the Alaskan Arctic, discussing Arctic ecology from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199860401
• ISBN-10: 0199860408
• Artikelnr.: 40307813

Autorenporträt

John Hobbie is the Director of The Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory. He is the former Lead Principal Investigator of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Arctic Site. George W. Kling is the Robert G. Wetzel Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface
* Contributors
* Chapter 1: Introduction
* Chapter 2: Climate and Hydrometeorology of the Toolik Lake Region and
the Kuparuk River Basin: Past,
* Chapter 3: Glacial History and Long-Term Ecology in the Toolik Lake
Region
* Chapter 4: Late-Quaternary Environmental and Ecological History of
the Arctic Foothills, Northern Alaska
* Chapter 5: Terrestrial Ecosystems at Toolik Lake, Alaska
* Chapter 6: Land-Water Interactions
* Chapter 7: Ecology of the Streams of the Toolik Region
* Chapter 8: The Response of Lakes near the Arctic-LTER to
Environmental Change
* Chapter 9: Mercury in the Alaskan Arctic
* Chapter 10: Ecological Consequences of Present and Future Change in
Arctic Alaska