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Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Plumas National Forest (N.F.), Sugarberry Project
Author: Plumas National Forest (N.F.), Slapjack Project
Author: Plumas National Forest (N.F.), Concow Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
Author: Plumas National Forest (N.F.), Sugarberry Project
Author: Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment: Appendices
Author: Style Manual of Government Printing Office
Author: A Manual of California Vegetation
Author: John Orvel SawyerPublisher: California Native Plant Society
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
Book Description
Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States
Author: Heatstroke
Author: Anthony D. BarnoskyPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597265292
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a “pizzly” was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a harbinger of things to come. In Heatstroke, the renowned paleoecologist shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. While melting ice may have helped produce the pizzly, climate change is more likely to wipe out species than to create them. Plants and animals that have followed the same rhythms for millennia are suddenly being confronted with a world they’re unprepared for—and adaptation usually isn’t an option. This is not the first time climate change has dramatically transformed Earth. Barnosky draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. The differences now are that climate change is faster and hotter than past changes, and for the first time humanity is driving it. Which means this time we can work to stop it. No one knows exactly what nature will come to look like in this new age of global warming. But Heatstroke gives us a haunting portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved.
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