Transient Landscapes : Insights on a Changing Planet.

Cover -- Contents -- Of Landscapes and Transience -- Solid as a Rock?: Geological Transience Out Far and In Deep -- Landscapes on the Edge -- Balance of Power: Camp Creek, New Zealand -- Facing the Subduction Zone: The Lost Coast of Northern California -- Himalaya: The Weather Makers -- Tortured Landscape: Mount Unzen, Japan -- Paradox: Sechura Desert, Western Peru -- Hell, 100 Years Later: Katmai National Park, Alaska -- Juxtapositions of Violence: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona -- Interior Landscapes -- Buckeye Creek Cave, West Virginia: What Lies Beneath -- Stepped Landscape: Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa -- Islands of Rock: Kakadu National Park, Australia -- Retreating Ice: Mackenzie River, Canada -- Time and the Rivers Flowing -- In Transit: La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica -- Summer's Abundance: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska -- Survival Strategies: Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska -- Differing Scales of Transience: Wulik River, Alaska -- Transient Rivers: Bungle Bungle -- Amazon I: Flood Pulse of the World's Greatest River -- Amazon II: Várzea of the Rio Napo -- Amazon III: Igapó of the Rio Ampiyacu -- Black Water Swamp in Autumn: Congaree National Park, South Carolina -- Flowing Rivers: Missouri River, Montana -- Negev Desert, Israel -- Motion and Fixity: Shortgrass Prairie, Northeastern Colorado -- Seven Billion and Counting -- Terra Nova: Hawai'i -- Old-Growth Forest Stream, Colorado Front Range -- Vernal Pond, Northeastern Ohio -- Watershed: Upper Rio Chagres, Panama -- Refuge: Coweeta Forest, North Carolina -- Altering the River's Pulse: North Fork Poudre River, Colorado -- Rivers and Oceans: Broome, Australia -- Beaver Meadow, Rocky Mountain National Park -- Twilight of the Mountain Glaciers: Sermiligâq Fjord, Greenland.

Deep, Dark Forest: Temperate Rain Forest of Northwestern Montana -- Vanishing Wonderland: Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Rio Pequeño?: Big Bend National Park, Texas -- Rannoch Moor, Scottish Highlands -- Wild Gardens: The Moorlands of Northern Britain -- Missing Pieces: Italian Dolomites -- Shrinking Ecosystem: Kruger National Park, South Africa -- Y2K in the Thar Desert, India -- Mountain Pine Beetles in the Colorado Front Range -- Living with Transience -- Selected References -- Index.

"Landscape-the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place-is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient landscapes, Wohl introduces this idea of an ever-shifting, ever-transitioning global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through the earth's natural environmental and climatological process and which comes from human intervention"--.

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