M. Woodwell (ed.)

The Earth in Transition

Herausgeber: Woodwell, George M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1033g
• ISBN-13: 9780521391375
• ISBN-10: 0521391377
• Artikelnr.: 23304381

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Part I. Global Change and
the Patterns of Impoverishment: 1. The earth under stress: a transition to
climatic instability raises questions about patterns of impoverishment
George M. Woodwell; 2. The experimental impoverishment of natural
communities: effects of ionizing radiation on plant communities, 1961-1976
George M. Woodwell and Richard A. Houghton; 3. Air pollution and temperate
forests: creeping degradation F. Herbert Bormann; 4. The long-term effects
of air pollutants on lichen communities in Europe and North America D. L.
Hawksworth; 5. Biotic impoverishment in Northern Peatlands Eville Gorham;
6. Climatic change and the survival of forest species Margaret Bryan Davis;
7. The atmosphere and the future of the biosphere: points of interactive
disturbance Michael Oppenheimer; Part II. Chronic Disturbance and Natural
Ecosystems: Forests: 8. The restoration of Nonsuch Island as a living
museum of Bermuda's precolonial terrestrial biome David B. Wingate; 9.
Patterns of impoverishment in natural communities: case history studies in
forest ecosystems - New Zealand A. F. Mark and G. D. McSweeney; 10. Changes
in the eucalypt forests of Australia as a result of human disturbance R. L.
Specht; 11. Impoverishment in Pacific Island forests Dieter
Mueller-Dombois; 12. Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia Philip M.
Fearnside; 13. Incentives for sustainable forest management Robert Repetto;
Part III. Chronic Disturbance and Natural Ecosystems: Woodlands, Grasslands
and Tundra: 14. Changes in the Mediterranean vegetation of Israel in
response to human habitation and land use Zev Naveh and Pua Kutiel; 15.
Bromus tectorum, a biotic cause of ecosystem impoverishment in the Great
Basin W. D. Billings; 16. Detecting early signs of regional air-pollution
injury to coastal sage scrub Walter E. Westman; 17. Arctic ecosystems:
patterns of change in response to disturbance L. C. Bliss; Part IV. Chronic
Disturbance and Natural Ecosystems: Aquatic and Emergent Ecosystems;
Section A. Marine Systems: 18. Changes in a Red Sea coral community
structure: a long-term case history study Y. Loya; 19. Are deep-sea
communities resilient? J. Frederick Grassle, Nancy J. Maciolek and James A.
Blake; 20. Species dominance-diversity patterns in Oceanic communities John
A. McGowan; Section B. Freshwater Systems: 21. Natural and
anthropogenically imposed limitations to biotic richness in fresh waters
David W. Schindler; 22. Human impacts on the South Florida Wetlands: the
Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp William A. Niering; 23. The impoverishment
of aquatic communities by Smelter activities near Sudbury, Canada N. D. Yan
and P. M. Welbourn; 24. Biotic impoverishment: effects of anthropogenic
stress John Cairns Jr and James R. Pratt; Part V. Conclusion: Steps Toward
a World that Runs Itself: 25. Steps toward sustainability J. Gustave Speth;
26. A reaction from a multitude Donella H. Meadows; Name index; Subject
index.