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Books : Outdoors & Nature : Ecosystems : Alpine
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John Muir's masterful celebration of Nature in her western setting, in a simptuous new edition featuring little-known art from the period, selected from the very rare collection, Picturesque California, edited by John Muir himself.
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Beyond identifying plant species, North Woods examines the many influences that shape the ecology of northern forests and alpine areas.
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Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated trailside refernce to plants, animals, and geology of an area that includes nine national parks and monuments
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Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. Environmental historian Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of this intriguing landscape, drawing on both the historical record and his experience in the Black Mountains as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created the mountains, then traces their history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today.Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But nature's stories--of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain--are also part of Silver's narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.
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Describes the physical characteristics, habits, behavior, and habitat of twenty-one animals including the chamois, marmot, and ring ouzel, that have adapted to the harsh mountain conditions.
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What is it like to live in a place of bare rock, vertical walls, and windswept ledges, where snow covers the ground for much of the year and temperature changes of thirty degrees or more is the daily norm?The Alpine Sierra Nevada, the rugged mountain world above treeline, presents this challenge to all living things venturing into its extreme environment. From the tiny meadow vole to the delicate alpine flower growing between slabs of broken rockfall, all that live within this diverse, thin-aired landscape have developed specialized adaptations just to survive. David Gilligan describes the Alpine Sierra Nevada with a naturalist's passion for both personal observation and science. From deep inside an ice-encrusted crevasse on the Lyell Glacier to the airy heights of Mt. Ritter, The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above The Trees is dedicated to exploring the high and hidden world of the Sierra Nevada's alpine zone.
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Written by leading international authors, this book presents a comprehensive review of forests in mountain regions, and their sustainable development. It is based on a report prepared by the IUFRO Task Force in Sustainable Mountain Development, for the IUFRO Congress to be held in August 2000. The book addresses current issues and initiatives, and defines research needs. Key global topics are addressed in general articles, and many specific regional issues, e.g. impacts on forest lakes in Ecuador, are described in shorter case studies.
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For the past ten years David Gilligan has climbed all of the major mountain ranges in the world. His resulting narrative, In the Years of the Mountains, takes readers to the highest places on four continents for an up-close consideration of the cultural, geological, and biological make up of mountains. From the Swiss Alps to the Himalayas, on to New Zealand, and then back to the North American cordillera, Gilligan treats readers to adventure mixed with science and history. This book is an ode to the essence of high mountains, but it is also about wishing desperately for a good picket placement on a steep snowfield, with a yawning crevasse just feet below; about watching a pious man offer burnt juniper to the gods; and about being alone on a crystalline white summit during a temperature inversion, with purple-gray clouds spreading out like an atmospheric ocean in all directions as far as the eye can see. From a master mountaineer, explorer, and university professor, In the Years of the Mountains is an eye-opening look at mountains: a collision of the grand with the intensely personal.
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See where a mountain has been built and torn apart, and is now rebuilding before our eyes. Witness the eruption in a second-by-second photo sequence.
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This book discusses the importance of mountain regions, and the precariousness of mountain tourism in the context of ecosystem and cultural conservation. Case studies of mountain tourism existing along with environmental sustainability and community well-being are included. An integrated approach to mountain based tourism balancing the needs of local communities, tourists and environmental conservation is presented.
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This book will provide a complete overview of an alpine ecosystem, based on the long-term research conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER. There is, at present, no general book on alpine ecology. The alpine ecosystem features conditions near the limits of biological existence, and is a useful laboratory for asking more general ecological questions, because it offers large environmental change over relatively short distances. Factors such as macroclimate, microclimate, soil conditions, biota, and various biological factors change on differing scales, allowing insight into the relative contributions of the different factors on ecological outcomes.
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The book represents results of 20 years' worth of ecological investigation of alpine ecosystems in the Northwest Caucasus. Plant geographical description of the area, syntaxonomy, spatial patterns, floristic richness, structure of plant communities in relation to soil properties and herbivore influence were described for a mountain region that is difficult to access. Seasonal, inter-annual, and long-term dynamics of vegetation are discussed on the base of long-term observations as well as pollen and phytolith analyses. Population biology of alpine plants is studied by combination of field observations and mathematical modelling. Plant population strategies and soil seed banks are described for alpine plants from several communities. Results of long-term ecological experiments (plant reciprocal transplantations, dominant removals, light limitation) showed the significance of competition and facilitation for community organization. Structure of soil algal and fungal communities is represented as well as mycorrhiza of alpine plants. Main animal groups (wild) history and modern nature conservation problems are discussed. The book will be of interest to plant ecologists, botanists, biogeographers, soil scientists, zoologists, soil microbiologists, naturalists and nature conservation managers dealing with high mountain ecology.
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From the beaches of Monte Carlo to the hundreds of soaring snow peaks, festooned with glaciers, pastures, and flowering tundra, the Alps straddle the meeting points of rich and developed countries.Both personal narrative and topical guide, The Alps presents an ambitous synthesis of the entire Alpine region. The broad scope of the book encompasses the region's geography, geology, climate, its snow and glaciers, flora and fauna, ethnic groups, dialects, pastoral life and festivals, home life and folk arts, legends, fiction, visual arts, music and dancing, warfare, summit climbing, trekking, ski touring, and what the authors call psychological ecology. Unifying this kaleidoscope is the authors' deep understanding of the inter-dependence between and within the natural and cultural realms.The Alps have been a fulcrum of European history from the Caesars and Napoleon to the assassination, Olympics, and massacres at Sarajevo. Along the way, these mountains became the cradle of modern democracy in Switzerland and the crucible of mountaineering from Petrarch, Whymper, and Mummery to Rebuffat, Bonnatti, and Messner. Food, shelter, and good company are offered in hundreds of climbers' huts, from which the highest peaks are accessible by pleasant standard routes as well as by more challenging ones, such as the Mummery Crack, the Petit Dru, and the north face of Eiger. In many places, one can admire how chamois and ibex cavort on the crags while butterflies dance in the wind.With wide experience throughout the world and more than forty years climbing and studying in the Alps, the Shoumatoffs now offer all these facets of the Alps, each enhanced by their special affection and deep knowledge of these mountains that are the heart of Europe.The late Nicholas Shoumatoff, an entomologist and mechanical engineer, was Fellow Emeritus of The Explorers Club, member of the American Alpine Club, and coauthor of a monograph on butterflies of Afghanistan. The late Nina Shoumatoff, who marveled at the Alps since childhood, studied literature and philosophy in France, Austria, and the United States.
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