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Agrarian Landscapes in Transition - Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change (Hardcover)
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Agrarian Landscapes in Transition - Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological & Cultural Change (Hardcover)
Series: Long-Term Ecological Research Network
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Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with
the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of
production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of
agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's
environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans
impose their spatial and temporal signatures on ecological regimes,
and how does this manipulation affect the earth and nature's desire
for equilibrium?
Studies were conducted at six Long Term Ecological Research sites
within the US, including New England, the Appalachian Mountains,
Colorado, Michigan, Kansas, and Arizona. While each site has its
own unique agricultural history, patterns emerge that help make
sense of how our actions have affected the earth, and how the earth
pushes back. The book addresses how human activities influence the
spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes, and how
this varies over time and across biogeographic regions. It also
looks at the ecological and environmental consequences of the
resulting structural changes, the human responses to these changes,
and how these responses drive further changes in agrarian
landscapes.
The time frames studied include the ecology of the earth before
human interaction, pre-European human interaction during the rise
and fall of agricultural land use, and finally the biological and
cultural response to the abandonment of farming, due to complete
abandonment or a land-use change such as urbanization.
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