Arctic And Alpine Environments

Author : Jack D. Ives,Roger G. Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000698220

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Arctic and Alpine Environments by Jack D. Ives,Roger G. Barry Pdf

Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full understanding of these regions. This book provides a detailed documentation of cold-stressed arctic and alpine terrestrial environments and systematically deals with the present and past physical environment – climate, hydrology and glaciology; biota – treeline, vegetation, vertebrate zoology, and historical biogeography; abiotic processes – geomorphological and pedological and the role of man – bioclimatology, archaeology and technological impact, including radioecology. The book will appeal to academics and students of environmental and biological science, as well as providing a significant source for conservationists’, government agencies and industrial organizations.

Author : International Association for Quaternary Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UCSD:31822013573613

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Arctic and Alpine Environments by International Association for Quaternary Research Pdf

Author : Joyce A. Quinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313087745

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Arctic and Alpine Biomes by Joyce A. Quinn Pdf

This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World: series covers the biomes at high altitudes and near the poles, including the arctic tundra biomes, the Mid-Latitude Alpine Tundra Biome (found in the mountain ranges of North America, Asia, and South America), and the tropical alpine tundra biome (for example, Hawaii).

Author : Jon Børre Ørbaek,Roland Kallenborn,Ingunn Tombre,Else N. Hegseth,Stig Falk-Petersen,Alf H. Hoel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540485148

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Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment by Jon Børre Ørbaek,Roland Kallenborn,Ingunn Tombre,Else N. Hegseth,Stig Falk-Petersen,Alf H. Hoel Pdf

The European Arctic and Alpine regions are experiencing large environmental changes. These changes may have socio-economic effects if the changes affect the bioproduction, which form the basis for the marine and terrestrial food chains. This uniquely multidisciplinary book presents the various aspects of contemporary environmental changes in Arctic and Alpine Regions.

Author : Union internationale pour l'étude du quaternaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : OCLC:250519748

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Arctic and Alpine environments by Union internationale pour l'étude du quaternaire Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Alpine regions
ISBN : PSU:000032947243

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The 28th International Arctic Workshop by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary A. Laursen,Joseph F. Ammirati,Scott A. Redhead
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475719390

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Arctic and Alpine Mycology II by Gary A. Laursen,Joseph F. Ammirati,Scott A. Redhead Pdf

During the summer of 1980, the First International symposium on Arctic and Alpine Mycology (ISAM-I) was held at the then extant Naval Arctic Research Laboratory near Barrow, Alaska, U.S.A., well within the Arctic Circle (Laursen and Ammirati, Arctic and Alpine Mycology. The First International symposium on Arcto-Alpine Mycology. Univ. Wash. Press, 1982). The facility is currently owned and operated by the Utkeagvik Inupiat community and is named the National Academic and Research Laboratory, thus retaining its acronym NARL. Twenty-five scientists participated in that historic first meeting. Their interests in the fungi spanned a vast geographic area of cold dominated habitats in both the northern and southern hemispheres that included four continents (N. and S. America, Eurasia,and Antarctica), nine countries, and numerous islands ranging from Greenland to Jan Mayen in the Svalbard group. ISAM-I helped to develop ongoing interests and initiate others. This is what ISAM-I founders hoped would happen. Asa result, the organizing committee for ISAM-II was formed. Its mandate was to: involve a maximum of one third new participants in future ISAM meetings: divide the responsibility for organizing future meetings at sites located in areas of interest to research thrusts in Arctic and alpine environments: keep the number of participants small enough to ensure manageability, taking full advantage of field collecting opportunities with minimal complications and cost.

Author : F.Stuart III Chapin,Christian Körner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642789663

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Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences by F.Stuart III Chapin,Christian Körner Pdf

As human populations expand and have increasing access to technol ogy, two general environmental concerns have arisen. First, human pop ulations are having increasing impact on the earth system, such that we are altering the biospheric carbon pools, basic processes of elemental cycling and the climate system of the earth. Because of time lags and feedbacks, these processes are not easily reversed. These alterations are occurring now more rapidly than at any time in the last several million years. Secondly, human activities are causing changes in the earth's biota that lead to species extinctions at a rate and magnitude rivaling those of past geologic extinction events. Although environmental change is potentially reversible at some time scales, the loss of species is irrevo cable. Changes in diversity at other scales are also cause for concern. Habitat fragmentation and declines in population sizes alter genetic di versity. Loss or introduction of new functional groups, such as nitro gen fixers or rodents onto islands can strongly alter ecosystem processes. Changes in landscape diversity through habitat modification and frag mentation alter the nature of processes within and among vegetation patches. Although both ecological changes altering the earth system and the loss of biotic diversity have been major sources of concern in recent years, these concerns have been largely independent, with little concern for the environmental causes the ecosystem consequences of changes in biodiversity. These two processes are clearly interrelated. Changes in ecological systems cause changes in diversity.

Author : Laura Zucconi,Pietro Buzzini
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889716180

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Microbial Communities of Polar and Alpine Soils by Laura Zucconi,Pietro Buzzini Pdf

Author : International Association for Quaternary Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : UOM:39015006139284

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Proceedings, VII Congress, Boulder-Denver, Colorado, August 14-September 19, 1965: Its Arctic and alpine environments, edited by H. E. Wright, Jr by International Association for Quaternary Research Pdf

Author : F. Stuart Chapin III,Robert L. Jefferies,James F. Reynolds,Gaius R. Shaver,Josef Svoboda,Ellen W. Chu
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323138420

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Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate by F. Stuart Chapin III,Robert L. Jefferies,James F. Reynolds,Gaius R. Shaver,Josef Svoboda,Ellen W. Chu Pdf

The arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change. This book synthesizes information on the physiological ecology of arctic plants, discusses how physiological processes influence ecosystem processes, and explores how climate warming will affect arctic plants, plant communities, and ecosystem processes. Key Features * Reviews the physiological ecology of arctic plants * Explores biotic controls over community and ecosystems processes * Provides physiological bases for predicting how the Arctic will respond to global climate change

Author : William D. Bowman,Timothy R. Seastedt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780195117288

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Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem by William D. Bowman,Timothy R. Seastedt Pdf

Alpine Tundra.

Author : Stanwyn G. Shetler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:918416768

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Plants in the Arctic-Alpine Environment by Stanwyn G. Shetler Pdf

Author : Douglas A. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Alpine regions
ISBN : WISC:89031284128

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Special Management Needs of Alpine Ecosystems by Douglas A. Johnson Pdf

Author : Sarah J. Woodin,Mick Marquiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 052183998X

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Ecology of Arctic Environments by Sarah J. Woodin,Mick Marquiss Pdf

Once thought of as a pristine environment, it is now all too apparent that the Arctic is a sink for pollutants transported northwards over long distances in the atmosphere and oceans, and is also likely to be subject to major climate change as a result of global warming. Many ecologists are currently seeking to further our understanding of how arctic ecosystems function, and to detect and predict anthropogenic changes which may occur within them. This book, resulting from a British Ecological Society Special Symposium, addresses these issues.