Drawing from a broad range of geoscience, bioscience, and other sciences, Mysterious Ways speaks to the stories we tell about how our world came to be, how it changes, and our place in it. Describing how evolution and selection operate at the level of landscapes, this book also shows how landforms, soils, hydrology, and biota coevolve as they mutually adapt to climate and other environmental changes,
Drawing from a broad range of geoscience, bioscience, and other sciences, Mysterious Ways speaks to the stories we tell about how our world came to be, how it changes, and our place in it. Describing how evolution and selection operate at the level of landscapes, this book also shows how landforms, soils, hydrology, and biota coevolve as they mutually adapt to climate and other environmental changes,
Jonathan D. Phillips, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Earth Surface Systems at the University of Kentucky. He taught there for 20 years and previously held faculty positions at Texas A&M, East Carolina, and Arizona State Universities. He has published more than 250 journal articles, books, and book chapters in several areas of the earth, environmental, and ecological sciences, and is the recipient of distinguished career awards from the British Society for Geomorphology and the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the American Association Geographers.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Chapter 1: Mysterious Ways Chapter 2: Supra-organic Landscapes Chapter 3: It Depends on the Scale... Chapter 4: Landscape Memory Chapter 5: The Goals of Landscape Evolution Chapter 6: Selection and Landscape Evolution Chapter 7: Store and Pour and Adapt Chapter 8: Why Everything is Connected to Everything Else Chapter 9: Perfection Chapter 10: Climate Change and Mysterious Ways Epilogue
Preface Chapter 1: Mysterious Ways Chapter 2: Supra-organic Landscapes Chapter 3: It Depends on the Scale... Chapter 4: Landscape Memory Chapter 5: The Goals of Landscape Evolution Chapter 6: Selection and Landscape Evolution Chapter 7: Store and Pour and Adapt Chapter 8: Why Everything is Connected to Everything Else Chapter 9: Perfection Chapter 10: Climate Change and Mysterious Ways Epilogue
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