Inland Dunes of North America, Lancaster Nicholas, Hesp Patrick
Автор: Lancaster Nicholas, Hesp Patrick Название: Inland Dunes of North America ISBN: 3030404978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030404970 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20733.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west.
Автор: Hindley, David (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Название: Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere ISBN: 0367646056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367646059 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 25265.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Many chapters attempt to reconstruct past climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time in the expectation that such information might assist in preparing us for future global warming and drying.
Автор: Lancaster, Nicholas Название: Geomorphology of Desert Dunes ISBN: 0415060931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415060936 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 30624.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Avinoam Danin Название: Plants of Desert Dunes ISBN: 3642646360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642646362 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14818.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on three decades of field experience in southwest Asia, southern Africa, and the southwest United States, the author summarizes the major adaptations of plants to desert dunes. This integrative study of plant and diaspore morphology, reactive growth, life cycles, and environmental factors explains and predicts plant distribution.
Автор: Luisa M Mart?nez; Juan B. Gallego-Fern?ndez; Patri Название: Restoration of Coastal Dunes ISBN: 3642446752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642446757 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20733.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The continuously growing human population along the world’s coasts will exacerbate the impact of human activities on all coastal environments. Restoration activities will therefore become increasingly important. In particular, sandy shores and coastal dunes will require significant restoration efforts because they are preferred sites for human settlement, industrial and urban development and tourism. With this book experts in the field present a comprehensive review of restoration studies and activities, where ‘successful’ and ‘failed’ studies or approaches from around the world are contrasted and compared. A major asset the book provides is a compendium of studies showing that coastal dune restoration has many definitions and thus leads to many different actions. This volume addresses those with an interest in conservation ecology and biology, coastal dune dynamics and geomorphology, and coastal management who are seeking information on the different strategies for coastal dune restoration applied in different regions of the world. Finally, it will be a valuable resource for coastal scientists and planners, as well as for local and state officials, residents of coastal communities, environmental advocates and developers.
Автор: Lu, Qi Название: Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere ISBN: 103226943X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032269436 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 26030.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Nicholas Lancaster Название: Geomorphology of Desert Dunes ISBN: 1108420885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108420884 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10771.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sand dunes are a globally important depositional landform and sedimentary system. Their origins and dynamics are important in understanding how deserts have evolved in response to climate change and changes in sand supply and mobility, and how they will continue to evolve in the future. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the characteristics of desert dunes and their sediments, and explores their dynamics on timescales from days to millennia as they respond to changes in wind speed and direction, precipitation and sand supply. This extensively revised edition reflects the advances in our understanding of desert dunes, their dynamics and history; and covers recent developments including the luminescence dating revolution, ground penetrating radar and advances in numerical modeling. Also covering dunes on Mars and Titan, this authoritative reference is a must-have for researchers and graduate students working on desert dunes and aeolian geomorphology.
Автор: Lancaster, Nicholas Название: Geomorphology of Desert Dunes ISBN: 041506094X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415060943 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 10411.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, floodplain management of many lowland rivers has taken on new importance because of concerns about the potential for global environmental change to alter floodplain processes, necessitating revised management strategies that minimize flood risk while enhancing environmental attributes of floodplains influenced by local embankments and upstream dams.
Recognition of the failure of old perspectives on river management and the need to enhance environmental sustainability has stimulated a new approach to river management. The manner that river restoration and integrated management are implemented, however, requires a case study approach that takes into account the impact of historic human impacts to the system, especially engineering. The river basins examined in this volume provide a representative coverage of the drainage of North America and Europe, taking into account a range of climatic and physiographic provinces. They include the 1) Sacramento (California, USA), 2) San Joaquin (California), 3) Missouri (Missouri, USA), 4) Red (Manitoba, Canada and Minnesota, USA), 5) Mississippi (Louisiana, USA), 6) Kissimmee (Florida, USA), 7) Ebro (Spain), 8) Rhone (France), 9) Rhine (Netherlands), 10) Danube (Romania), and 11) Volga (Russian Federation) Rivers. The case studies covered in these chapters span a range of fluvial modes of adjustment, including sediment, channel, hydrologic regime, floodplains, as well as ecosystem and environmental associations.
Автор: Lopez-Vallejo Название: Reconfiguring Global Climate Governance in North America ISBN: 147241036X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472410368 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book details previous discussions about the concept of global climate governance and its limits.
Автор: G.T.O LeBreton; F. William H. Beamish; Scott R. Mc Название: Sturgeons and Paddlefish of North America ISBN: 9048167299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048167296 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Modern North American sturgeons and paddlefish are the result of 100 million years of evolution. This book details the extensive science aimed at helping these remarkable species recover from the brink of extinction, and describes the historical, biological, and ecological importance of North American sturgeon and paddlefish.
Автор: Harold W. Borns, Jr.; Kirk Allen Maasch Название: Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America ISBN: 3319379410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319379418 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12537.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He published these very critical field observations and inferences in numerous articles in local newspapers and magazines, and in the American Journal of Science in 1864. His work put him on the "team" of Benjamin Silliman, James D. Dana and Louis Agassiz as an advocate for glaciation as the regional land shaping force opposed to that of the Biblical Deluge, a major scientific conflict of the day both in North America and Europe. He remained a shadowy player, in the background, but clearly contributed critical observations to the argument through personal interactions with Agassiz and other prominent naturalists. They incorporated DeLaski's observations into their own presentations, often without giving him credit. John DeLaski's summary work, a 400 page handwritten manuscript for the book, "The Ancient Great Glacier of North America," was dated 1869. He died in 1874 and the book was not published. The historic significance of DeLaski's unpublished book is based upon its startling contribution to one of the major scientific questions of the day of whether the surficial geology of northern U.S. and Canada was caused by the actions of the Biblical Flood or by continental glaciation. If published, this would have been the first book on this continent, at least, to present a holistic discussion of the controversy in which he presented his critical observations of the surficial geology in Maine, southern New England and New Brunswick, Canada and concluded that these depositional and erosional features must be of glacial origin. DeLaski then incorporated other evidence into the book for glaciation reported by others from the region during a decade or two, and from the mid and far west and Canada to advocate that the entire region was covered by an ice sheet that was at least 5,000 feet and probably much thicker over interior northern U.S. and Canada and which terminated along a glacial margin which extended from southern new England as far westward along the courses of the Ohio, and Missouri Rivers. All this was done while most "naturalists" still advocated the Biblical Flood to explain the major components of the surficial geology in North America and abroad. DeLaski's book containing his critical observations of clearly so many landscape features of glacial origin, if published would have been a pivotal document that would have strongly supported those arguing for glaciations in the glaciations vs. flood international argument.
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