David R. Schiel and Michael S. Foster
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520278868
- eISBN:
- 9780520961098
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520278868.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, ...
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The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world. This review takes the reader from Darwin's early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology. The chapters furnish a discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change.Less
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world. This review takes the reader from Darwin's early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology. The chapters furnish a discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change.
William Balée
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042428
- eISBN:
- 9780813043074
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042428.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This summary takes a retrospective view of the preceding substantive and analytical chapters. These chapters bespeak new and significant findings relevant to the research program of historical ...
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This summary takes a retrospective view of the preceding substantive and analytical chapters. These chapters bespeak new and significant findings relevant to the research program of historical ecology. They treat specifically the biotic and historical consequences of the interactions between foragers and landscapes and between foragers and seascapes. Most of the book deals with archaeological time periods, but evidence from the more recent past in an ethnohistorical context is also presented. Deep time is rendered accessible in this volume thanks to advances in archaeological methods and procedures, as well as an increasingly sophisticated—and nuanced—view of the environment and the activities of foraging societies within it.Less
This summary takes a retrospective view of the preceding substantive and analytical chapters. These chapters bespeak new and significant findings relevant to the research program of historical ecology. They treat specifically the biotic and historical consequences of the interactions between foragers and landscapes and between foragers and seascapes. Most of the book deals with archaeological time periods, but evidence from the more recent past in an ethnohistorical context is also presented. Deep time is rendered accessible in this volume thanks to advances in archaeological methods and procedures, as well as an increasingly sophisticated—and nuanced—view of the environment and the activities of foraging societies within it.
David Raffaelli and Alan M. Friedlander
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199642250
- eISBN:
- 9780191774768
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642250.003.0011
- Subject:
- Biology, Aquatic Biology
This chapter describes some approaches for understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function at larger spatial and at longer temporal scales. It first considers the importance of building a credible ...
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This chapter describes some approaches for understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function at larger spatial and at longer temporal scales. It first considers the importance of building a credible evidence base of biodiversity change effects on ecosystem functioning at seascape scales. It then explores the different aspects of biodiversity change, compositional and species richness, within contrasting bottom-up controlled and top-down controlled systems, namely, estuaries and coral reefs. The two systems are affected by eutrophication and overfishing.Less
This chapter describes some approaches for understanding biodiversity-ecosystem function at larger spatial and at longer temporal scales. It first considers the importance of building a credible evidence base of biodiversity change effects on ecosystem functioning at seascape scales. It then explores the different aspects of biodiversity change, compositional and species richness, within contrasting bottom-up controlled and top-down controlled systems, namely, estuaries and coral reefs. The two systems are affected by eutrophication and overfishing.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310225
- eISBN:
- 9781846314391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310225.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter explores the meaning of the island in Mervyn Peake's work. Islands, generally with a sole human inhabitant, are present in works such as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Rhymes ...
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This chapter explores the meaning of the island in Mervyn Peake's work. Islands, generally with a sole human inhabitant, are present in works such as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Rhymes without Reason, and Letters from a Lost Uncle. Literal and metaphorical islands crop up constantly throughout Peake's prose and verse; the associated seascape figures in many of his drawings and illustrations. That every person is an island is a metaphor that Peake lived by, ‘something on which whatever he believed was founded and through which his every concept filtered’.Less
This chapter explores the meaning of the island in Mervyn Peake's work. Islands, generally with a sole human inhabitant, are present in works such as Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Rhymes without Reason, and Letters from a Lost Uncle. Literal and metaphorical islands crop up constantly throughout Peake's prose and verse; the associated seascape figures in many of his drawings and illustrations. That every person is an island is a metaphor that Peake lived by, ‘something on which whatever he believed was founded and through which his every concept filtered’.
