Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes
Autor Ellen Wohlen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2012
This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems.
Ellen Wohl begins by introducing the basic physical, chemical, and biological processes operating in rivers. She then addresses changes in rivers resulting from settlement and expansion, describes the growth of federal involvement in managing rivers, and examines the recent efforts to rehabilitate and conserve river ecosystems. In each chapter she focuses on a specific regional case study and describes what happens to a particular river organism—a bird, North America’s largest salamander, the paddlefish, and the American alligator—when people interfere with natural processes.
Ellen Wohl begins by introducing the basic physical, chemical, and biological processes operating in rivers. She then addresses changes in rivers resulting from settlement and expansion, describes the growth of federal involvement in managing rivers, and examines the recent efforts to rehabilitate and conserve river ecosystems. In each chapter she focuses on a specific regional case study and describes what happens to a particular river organism—a bird, North America’s largest salamander, the paddlefish, and the American alligator—when people interfere with natural processes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300194708
ISBN-10: 0300194706
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 131 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300194706
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 131 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Notă biografică
Ellen Wohl, professor of geology at Colorado State University, is also the author of Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range, published by Yale University Press.