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Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra
Author | : Larry L. Tieszen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461263077 |
This volume on botanical research in tundra represents the culmination of four years of intensive and integrated field research centered at Barrow, Alaska. The volume summarizes the most significant results and interpretations of the pri mary producer projects conducted in the U.S. IBP Tundra Biome Program (1970-1974). Original data reports are available from the authors and can serve as detailed references for interested tundra researchers. Also, the results of most projects have been published in numerous papers in various journals. The introduction provides a brief overview of other ecosystem components. The main body presents the results in three general sections. The summary chapter is an attempt to integrate ideas and information from the previous papers as well as extant literature. In addition, this chapter focuses attention on pro cesses of primary production which should receive increased emphasis. Although this book will not answer all immediate questions, it hopefully will enhance future understanding of the tundra, particularly as we have studied it in Northern Alaska.
Alaska's Ecology
Author | : Robin Dublin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781890692087 |
Covers living and non-living elements of ecosystems, food chains, webs and pyramids, interactions within ecosystems, biodiversity and kingdoms, investigations tudies, role of people within ecosystems, renewable and non-renewable resources.
Alaska's Ecology
Author | : Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781890692193 |
Alaska's Changing Arctic
Author | : John E. Hobbie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199860408 |
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.
Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest
Author | : F. Stuart Chapin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0195154312 |
The Boreal forest is the northern-most forest in the world, whose organisms and dynamics are shaped by low temperature and high latitude. The Alaskan Boreal forest is warming as rapidly as any place on earth, providing an opportunity to examine a biome as it adjusts to change. This book looks at this issue.
Freshwaters of Alaska
Author | : Alexander M. Milner |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461206774 |
Alaska's great size is mirrored by the large number and diversity of its freshwater ecosystems. This volume reviews and synthesizes research on a variety of Alaskan freshwaters including lakes, rivers and wetlands. The vast range of Alaskan habitats ensures that the chapters in this book will provide valuable information for readers interested in freshwaters, particularly nutrient dynamics, biotic adaptations, recovery mechanisms of aquatic biota, stream succession and the management of human-induced changes in aquatic habitats.
North by 2020
Author | : Amy Lauren Lovecraft |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2011-11-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1602231427 |
Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on the most important linked social-ecological systems, including fresh water, marine resources, and oil and gas development, this volume explores opportunities for sustainable development from a variety of perspectives, among them social sciences, natural and applied sciences, and the arts. Individual chapters highlight expressions of climate change in dance, music, and film, as well as from an indigenous knowledge–based perspective.
Entangled
Author | : Marilyn Sigman |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1602233489 |
Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth—from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon—in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again. In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she weaves in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s indigenous peoples. It is a rhapsodic introduction to this stunning region and a siren call to protect the land’s natural resources in the face of a warming, changing world.