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Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,R. G. WIEGERT,B. J. FREEMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:631722145
Author : Richard G. Wiegert,B. J. Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Salt marsh animals
ISBN : UCSD:31822005686076
Author : Charles Seabrook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820345338
The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast--its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it "a biological factory without equal." Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina ( Spartina alterniflora )--a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast's bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or "improved" for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.
Author : Richard G. Wiegert,B. J. Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Salt marsh animals
ISBN : PURD:32754050166614
Author : Richard G. Wiegert,B. J. Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Salt marsh animals
ISBN : UOM:39015086473819
Author : Denise M. Seliskar,John L. Gallagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Northwest Coast of North America
ISBN : UCSD:31822000481069
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89043828300
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951P00237274B
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063914714
Author : William H. Conner,Thomas W. Doyle,Ken W. Krauss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402050954
This book draws together the latest findings on the hydrological processes, community organization, and stress physiology of freshwater, tidally influenced land-margin forests of the southeastern United States. It describes the land use history that led to the restricted distribution of these wetlands, and provides descriptions of the hydrology, soils, biogeochemistry, and physiological ecology of these systems, highlighting the similarities shared among tidal freshwater forested wetlands.
Author : F. John Vernberg,Winona B. Vernberg,Thomas Siewicki
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1570031983
"Rapid population growth in the southeastern coastal zone has had an important influence on both resource management policy at the federal, state, regional, and local levels and the findings of environmental impact studies." These twenty-six papers represent a variety of disciplines and such topics as "policy in its broadest sense, environmental resources, and population trends."--Jacket.
Author : Buddy Sullivan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820350165
Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state’s greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature characteristics that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J. Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA’s study of the island’s fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology movement. With this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island’s history, including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; Sapelo’s two twentieth-century millionaire owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo’s multiple African American communities into one. Sapelo Island’s history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo’s culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of private and state owners of the island. The book’s thematic approach is one of “people and place”: how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images and maps, Sapelo documents a unique island history.
Author : Gerardo M.E. Perillo,Eric Wolanski,Donald R. Cahoon,Mark M. Brinson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080932134
Coastal wetlands are under a great deal of pressure from the dual forces of rising sea level and the intervention of human populations both along the estuary and in the river catchment. Direct impacts include the destruction or degradation of wetlands from land reclamation and infrastructures. Indirect impacts derive from the discharge of pollutants, changes in river flows and sediment supplies, land clearing, and dam operations. As sea level rises, coastal wetlands in most areas of the world migrate landward to occupy former uplands. The competition of these lands from human development is intensifying, making the landward migration impossible in many cases. This book provides an understanding of the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the ecological services that they provide, and suggestions for their management. In this book a CD is included containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world. * Includes a CD containing color figures of wetlands and estuaries in different parts of the world.
Author : Darold P. Batzer,Andrew H. Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520271647
“Wetland Habitats of North America is essential reading for everyone who studies, manages, or visits North American wetlands. It fills an important void in the wetland literature, providing accessible and succinct descriptions of all of the continent’s major wetland types.” Arnold van der Valk, Iowa State University “Batzer and Baldwin have compiled the most comprehensive compendium of North American wetland habitats and their ecology that is presently available—a must for wetland scientists and managers.” Irving A. Mendelssohn, Louisiana State University "If you want to gain a broad understanding of the ecology of North America’s diverse wetlands, Wetland Habitats of North America is the book for you. Darold Batzer and Andrew Baldwin have assembled an impressive group of regional wetland scientists who have produced a virtual encyclopedia to the continent’s wetlands. Reading the book is like a road trip across the Americas with guided tours of major wetland types by local experts. Your first stop will be to coastal wetlands with eight chapters covering tidal wetlands along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Then you’ll travel inland where you can visit any or all of 18 types ranging from bottomland swamps of the Southeast to pothole marshes of the Northern Prairies to montane wetlands of the Rockies to tropical swamps of Central America and desert springs wetlands. All in one book—I’m impressed! Every wetlander should add this book to her or his swampland library. Ralph Tiner, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Author : M.P. Weinstein,Daniel A. Kreeger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306475344
In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.