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Saving the Dammed follows the course of the seasons throughout one representative year at a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The seasonal changes provide a backdrop against which to explore how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems.
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Saving the Dammed follows the course of the seasons throughout one representative year at a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The seasonal changes provide a backdrop against which to explore how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Seitenzahl: 206
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 470g
- ISBN-13: 9780190943523
- ISBN-10: 0190943521
- Artikelnr.: 55389176
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Seitenzahl: 206
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 470g
- ISBN-13: 9780190943523
- ISBN-10: 0190943521
- Artikelnr.: 55389176
Ellen Wohl is a native of Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Science in geology from Arizona State University and a PhD in geosciences from the University of Arizona. She has been on the faculty at Colorado State University since 1989. Wohl has conducted fieldwork worldwide, and her research focuses on rivers, including the effects of beavers on river process and form. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America.
Introduction:
-The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek
-The Great Drying
-A Watery Microcosm
January:
-Of Rocks and Ice
-The Setting
-The Rocks
-The Ice
-After the Glaciers
February:
-About Beavers
-The Meadow in February
-Worth a Dam
-About Beavers
-The Family Tree of Beavers
-The Southern Colonists
-Where Beavers Belong
March:
-Water Superheroes
-The Meadow in March
-Fire, Flood, and Drought
-Water Superheroes
April:
-Six Degrees of Connectivity
-A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil
-To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam
-Beavers Versus Glaciers
-Only Connect... or Disconnect
May:
-Plugging the Nutrient Leaks
-Biogeochemical Engineers
-Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost
June:
-The Thin Green Line
-The Beavers and the Forest
-The Thin Green Line
-Green Engineering
July:
-Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things
-A Fish in Every Pond
-Cutthroat Competition
August:
-Legacy Effects
-Creating a Fur Desert
-Colorado Mountain Men
-A Legacy of Absence
September:
-Alternate Realities
-Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands
-Nature Green in Tooth and Paw
October:
-Of Beavers and Humans
-Lessons Not Yet Learned
-Beaver Leas
-Appreciating Beavers
November:
-Beavers to the Rescue
-Leave it to Beavers
-Beavers to the Rescue
December:
-Saving the Dammed
-Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow
-Ecosystem Services
-Betting on Beavers
Bibliography
Index
-The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek
-The Great Drying
-A Watery Microcosm
January:
-Of Rocks and Ice
-The Setting
-The Rocks
-The Ice
-After the Glaciers
February:
-About Beavers
-The Meadow in February
-Worth a Dam
-About Beavers
-The Family Tree of Beavers
-The Southern Colonists
-Where Beavers Belong
March:
-Water Superheroes
-The Meadow in March
-Fire, Flood, and Drought
-Water Superheroes
April:
-Six Degrees of Connectivity
-A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil
-To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam
-Beavers Versus Glaciers
-Only Connect... or Disconnect
May:
-Plugging the Nutrient Leaks
-Biogeochemical Engineers
-Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost
June:
-The Thin Green Line
-The Beavers and the Forest
-The Thin Green Line
-Green Engineering
July:
-Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things
-A Fish in Every Pond
-Cutthroat Competition
August:
-Legacy Effects
-Creating a Fur Desert
-Colorado Mountain Men
-A Legacy of Absence
September:
-Alternate Realities
-Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands
-Nature Green in Tooth and Paw
October:
-Of Beavers and Humans
-Lessons Not Yet Learned
-Beaver Leas
-Appreciating Beavers
November:
-Beavers to the Rescue
-Leave it to Beavers
-Beavers to the Rescue
December:
-Saving the Dammed
-Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow
-Ecosystem Services
-Betting on Beavers
Bibliography
Index
Introduction:
-The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek
-The Great Drying
-A Watery Microcosm
January:
-Of Rocks and Ice
-The Setting
-The Rocks
-The Ice
-After the Glaciers
February:
-About Beavers
-The Meadow in February
-Worth a Dam
-About Beavers
-The Family Tree of Beavers
-The Southern Colonists
-Where Beavers Belong
March:
-Water Superheroes
-The Meadow in March
-Fire, Flood, and Drought
-Water Superheroes
April:
-Six Degrees of Connectivity
-A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil
-To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam
-Beavers Versus Glaciers
-Only Connect... or Disconnect
May:
-Plugging the Nutrient Leaks
-Biogeochemical Engineers
-Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost
June:
-The Thin Green Line
-The Beavers and the Forest
-The Thin Green Line
-Green Engineering
July:
-Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things
-A Fish in Every Pond
-Cutthroat Competition
August:
-Legacy Effects
-Creating a Fur Desert
-Colorado Mountain Men
-A Legacy of Absence
September:
-Alternate Realities
-Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands
-Nature Green in Tooth and Paw
October:
-Of Beavers and Humans
-Lessons Not Yet Learned
-Beaver Leas
-Appreciating Beavers
November:
-Beavers to the Rescue
-Leave it to Beavers
-Beavers to the Rescue
December:
-Saving the Dammed
-Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow
-Ecosystem Services
-Betting on Beavers
Bibliography
Index
-The Beaver Meadow on North St. Vrain Creek
-The Great Drying
-A Watery Microcosm
January:
-Of Rocks and Ice
-The Setting
-The Rocks
-The Ice
-After the Glaciers
February:
-About Beavers
-The Meadow in February
-Worth a Dam
-About Beavers
-The Family Tree of Beavers
-The Southern Colonists
-Where Beavers Belong
March:
-Water Superheroes
-The Meadow in March
-Fire, Flood, and Drought
-Water Superheroes
April:
-Six Degrees of Connectivity
-A Rolling Sand Grain Makes No Soil
-To Make a Meadow It Takes a Beaver and One Dam
-Beavers Versus Glaciers
-Only Connect... or Disconnect
May:
-Plugging the Nutrient Leaks
-Biogeochemical Engineers
-Carbon Stored Versus Carbon Lost
June:
-The Thin Green Line
-The Beavers and the Forest
-The Thin Green Line
-Green Engineering
July:
-Of Fish and Frogs and Flying Things
-A Fish in Every Pond
-Cutthroat Competition
August:
-Legacy Effects
-Creating a Fur Desert
-Colorado Mountain Men
-A Legacy of Absence
September:
-Alternate Realities
-Beaver Meadows and Elk Grasslands
-Nature Green in Tooth and Paw
October:
-Of Beavers and Humans
-Lessons Not Yet Learned
-Beaver Leas
-Appreciating Beavers
November:
-Beavers to the Rescue
-Leave it to Beavers
-Beavers to the Rescue
December:
-Saving the Dammed
-Taking the Pulse of the North St. Vrain Beaver Meadow
-Ecosystem Services
-Betting on Beavers
Bibliography
Index