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The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods,
ice storms, etc.) indicates the prevalence of natural disasters in
most, if not all, ecosystems. In order for scientists to study,
understand, and ultimately predict how these disturbances affect
ecosystems, it is necessary for them to know more about the
physical processes involved in these disturbances and to learn how
to couple these processes to the ecological systems. Essential for
all ecologists, forest researchers, and conservation biologists,
this book includes chapters on the disturbance processes, how the
disturbance causes necrosis or death to individuals, and their
effects on population or community processes. In this book,
physical scientists who study disturbances provide an introduction
to the physical disturbance processes, while ecologists relate this
information to the way the vegetation responds to the disturbances.
This reference is also key for all researchers hydrology,
geomorphology, and environmental management.
* Includes coverage on six different disturbance processes: Wind,
Gravity, Geomorphic, Hydrologic, Combustion, and Biotic
* Provides a clear explanation of how some of the physical
processes of disturbance affect plant ecological processes
* Offers ecologists an up-to-date understanding of the physical
processes and allows them to predict future affects of
disturbances
* Unites two related fields by linking the disturbance processes
and ecological responses
* Presents physical scientists with ideas of how they might
usefully apply their knowledge to advance understanding of
ecological systems
Light Ahead for the Negro (1904) is a novel by Edward A. Johnson.
Written while Johnson was working as an assistant U. S. Attorney in
North Carolina, the novel is a groundbreaking work of speculative
fiction and Afrofuturism from a pioneering African American
politician and lawyer. "I glanced through the floor but the earth
was almost indistinguishable, and was disappearing rapidly. There
was absolutely nothing that I could do. I looked up again at my
friend, who was clambering up rather clumsily, I remember thinking
at the moment. [...] Involuntarily, I closed my eyes for a moment.
When I opened them again, he was gone! My feelings were
indescribable. I commenced to lose consciousness, owing to the
altitude and the ship was ascending more rapidly every moment.
Finally I became as one dead." The son of an abolitionist applies
to work at a school for African American children in Georgia. In
June 1906, he joins a wealthy friend on a flight from New York City
to Mexico, boarding an experimental airship at a West 59th Street
pier. When an instrument failure sends them spiraling into the
upper atmosphere, the narrator loses consciousness. One hundred
years later, he lands on a lawn in Georgia, awakening to discover a
utopian society in which anti-blackness has been completely
eradicated. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Edward A. Johnson's Light Ahead
for the Negro is a classic work of African American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
Environmental education has often blurred the distinction between
ecological science and environmental advocacy. Growing public
awareness of environmental problems and desire for action may be
contributing to this blurring. There is a need to clarify the
distinction between the role of ecological science and the role of
social and political values for the environment within
environmental education. This book addresses this need by examining
the changing perspectives of ecology in education and the changing
perspectives of education in environmental education. Guidelines
are provided for assessing the science and education perspectives
within environmental education, along with suggested frameworks for
development of programs and resources that integrate current
science, education and action. This book will be of interest to
environmental educators, ecologists interested in environmental
education, and curriculum and resource developers.
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a
fire-dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any
technical detail how forest fires produce effects on individual
plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the causal
connection between the behaviour of fire and its ecological
consequences is poorly understood. This book sets out to correct
this deficiency by assembling the relevant studies of fire
intensity, rate of spread, fuel consumption, fire frequency and
fire weather in the North American boreal forest. The central
thesis is that the North American boreal forest has at least four
wildfire characteristics that are important in understanding the
dynamics of its plant populations: the large size of the burns with
respect to dispersal distances, the short recurrence time of fire
with respect to tree lifespans, the high mortality of plants due to
the predominance of crown fires, and a good germination surface due
to the large area of the forest floor which is covered by ash.
Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial
ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities depend
on fire to generate species diversity in both time and space.
Without fire such ecosystems would become sterile monocultures.
Recent efforts to prohibit fire in fire dependent communities have
contributed to more intense and more damaging fires. For these
reasons, foresters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and
environmental scientists are interested in the behavior and
ecological effects of fires. This book will be the first to focus
on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in
which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function.
Leading international contributors have been recruited by the
editors to prepare a didactic text/reference that will appeal to
both advanced students and practicing professionals.
Biogeoscience is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that
aims to bring together biological and geophysical processes. This
book builds an enhanced understanding of ecosystems by focusing on
the integrative connections between ecological processes and the
geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Each chapter provides
studies by researchers who have contributed to the biogeoscience
synthesis, presenting the latest research on the relationships
between ecological processes, such as conservation laws and heat
and transport processes, and geophysical processes, such as
hillslope, fluvial and aeolian geomorphology, and hydrology.
Highlighting the value of biogeoscience as an approach to
understand ecosystems, this is an ideal resource for researchers
and students in both ecology and the physical sciences.
Environmental education has often blurred the distinction between
ecological science and environmental advocacy. Growing public
awareness of environmental problems and desire for action may be
contributing to this blurring. There is a need to clarify the
distinction between the role of ecological science and the role of
social and political values for the environment within
environmental education. This book addresses this need by examining
the changing perspectives of ecology in education and the changing
perspectives of education in environmental education. Guidelines
are provided for assessing the science and education perspectives
within environmental education, along with suggested frameworks for
development of programs and resources that integrate current
science, education and action. This book will be of interest to
environmental educators, ecologists interested in environmental
education, and curriculum and resource developers.
Disturbance ecology continues to be an active area of research,
having undergone advances in many areas in recent years. One
emerging direction is the increased coupling of physical and
ecological processes, in which disturbances are increasingly traced
back to mechanisms that cause the disturbances themselves, such as
earth surface processes, mesoscale, and larger meteorological
processes, and the ecological effects of interest are increasingly
physiological. Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition encourages
movement away from the informal, conceptual approach traditionally
used in defining natural disturbances and clearly presents how
scientists can use a multitude of approaches in plant disturbance
ecology. This edition includes nine revised chapters from the first
edition, as well new, more comprehensive chapters on fire
disturbance and beaver disturbance. Edited by leading experts in
the field, Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition is an essential
resource for scientists interested in understanding plant
disturbance and ecological processes.
It is almost dogma that the boreal forest in North America is a
fire-dependent forest, yet ecologists often do not consider in any
technical detail how forest fires produce effects on individual
plants and on plant populations. Consequently, the causal
connection between the behaviour of fire and its ecological
consequences is poorly understood. This book sets out to correct
this deficiency by assembling the relevant studies of fire
intensity, rate of spread, fuel consumption, fire frequency and
fire weather in the North American boreal forest. The central
thesis is that the North American boreal forest has at least four
wildfire characteristics that are important in understanding the
dynamics of its plant populations: the large size of the burns with
respect to dispersal distances, the short recurrence time of fire
with respect to tree lifespans, the high mortality of plants due to
the predominance of crown fires, and a good germination surface due
to the large area of the forest floor which is covered by ash.
During the Cold War the United States developed the Trident class
ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to replace the aging fleet of
forty-one Poseidon ballistic missile submarines. Each of the
eighteen Trident class submarines built to carry the mantle of
strategic nuclear deterrence was extremely large and quiet with
tubes for twenty-four ballistic missiles. Following the breakup of
the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States
conducted a review of its nuclear posture, which determined that
only fourteen of these submarines were necessary to meet the needs
of U.S. national security.
The History of Negro Soldiers in The Spanish American War. By
Edward A. Johnson, 1899]
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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