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Zoogeomorphology
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ISBN: 9780521039321 9780521433433 0521039320 0521433436 9780511529900 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Anthropocene
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ISBN: 9781032076683 1032076682 9781032076690 Year: 2022 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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"This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth’s environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene." -- Publisher's description.


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Zoogeomorphology : animals as geomorphic agents
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ISBN: 0511529902 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Animals as geomorphic agents have primarily been considered curiosities in the literature of geomorphology, whose spatial and quantitative influences have been seen as both limited and minor. Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents, which is wholly devoted to this topic, examines the distinct geomorphic influences of invertebrates, ectothermic vertebrates, birds and mammals, and demonstrates the importance of animals as landscape sculptors. Specific processes associated with the diversity of animal influences in geomorphology are examined, including burrowing and denning, nesting, lithophagy and geophagy, wallowing and trampling, food caching, excavating for food, and dam building by beavers. Particular emphasis is placed on terrestrial animals, although aquatic animals are also discussed where appropriate.


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The application of remote sensing and geographic information systems in the study of geomorphology. Volume 21, n° 3-4, 1.1998
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Tree Rings and Natural Hazards : A State-of-Art
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ISBN: 9789048187362 9789048187447 9789048187355 9789400732179 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage contained within the tree. However, these unique, annually resolved, tree-ring records preserve valuable archives of past earth-surface processes on timescales of decades to centuries. As many of these processes are significant natural hazards, understanding their distribution, timing and controls provides valuable information that can assist in the prediction, mitigation and defence against these hazards and their effects on society. Tree Rings and Natural Hazards provides many illustrations of these themes, demonstrating the application of tree rings to studies of snow avalanches, rockfalls, landslides, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and several other processes. Several of the chapters are "classic studies", others represent recent applications using previously unpublished material. They illustrate the breadth and diverse applications of contemporary dendrogeomorphology and underline the growing potential to expand such studies, possibly leading to the establishment of a range of techniques and approaches that may become standard practice in the analysis of natural hazards in the future.


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Mountain geomorphology, integrating earth systems. Vol. 55, n° 1-4, 30. 9.2003 : proceedings of the 32nd Binghamton geomorphology symposium

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Tree Rings and Natural Hazards : A State-of-Art
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ISBN: 9789048187362 9789048187355 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands Imprint Springer

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The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage contained within the tree. However, these unique, annually resolved, tree-ring records preserve valuable archives of past earth-surface processes on timescales of decades to centuries. As many of these processes are significant natural hazards, understanding their distribution, timing and controls provides valuable information that can assist in the prediction, mitigation and defence against these hazards and their effects on society. Tree Rings and Natural Hazards provides many illustrations of these themes, demonstrating the application of tree rings to studies of snow avalanches, rockfalls, landslides, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and several other processes. Several of the chapters are "classic studies", others represent recent applications using previously unpublished material. They illustrate the breadth and diverse applications of contemporary dendrogeomorphology and underline the growing potential to expand such studies, possibly leading to the establishment of a range of techniques and approaches that may become standard practice in the analysis of natural hazards in the future.


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The changing alpine treeline : the example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA
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ISBN: 1282769847 9786612769849 0080957099 0444533648 9780444533647 9780080957098 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam : Academic Press,

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The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine tundra is subject to invasion - or the upward advance of treeline. The invasion of tundra by trees will have consequences for the tundra biome as invasion does for other island flora and fauna. To examine the invasibility of tundra we take a plant's-eye-view, wherein the local conditions become

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