The Silver Lining : : The Benefits of Natural Disasters / / Seth R. Reice.
Floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes--we are quick to call them ''natural disasters.'' But are they? Did the great fires that swept Yellowstone in 1988 devastate the park, or did they just ravage our image of the park as a fixed, unchanging national treasure...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 p.) :; 15 line illus., 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- Chapter 2 Disturbance, Patchiness, and Communities
- Chapter 3 Recolonization, or How Do All Those Species Fill Up the Gaps?
- Chapter 4 Disturbance Ecology and Fire Management: "Let It Burn!"
- Chapter 5 Disturbance Ecology and Flood Control
- Chapter 6 Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Human Needs
- Chapter 7 Human-Caused Disturbance: All Disturbances Are Not Created Equal
- Chapter 8 Toward an Ecological Worldview
- Epilogue Living with Disturbances
- Index