Landslide ecology [electronic resource] / Lawrence R. Walker, Aaron B. Shiels.
2013
QE599.A2 W35 2013
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Title
Landslide ecology [electronic resource] / Lawrence R. Walker, Aaron B. Shiels.
Author
Walker, Lawrence R.
ISBN
9780521178402
9780521190527
9781139611411 (electronic book)
9780521190527
9781139611411 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 300 p. : ill.
Call Number
QE599.A2 W35 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
577.5/8
Summary
"Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides provide fascinating templates for studying how soil organisms, plants, and animals respond to such destruction. The emerging field of landslide ecology helps us to understand these responses, aiding slope stabilization and restoration and contributing to progress made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and mitigation. Summarizing the growing body of literature on the ecological consequences of landslides, this book provides a framework for the promotion of ecological tools in predicting, stabilizing, and restoring biodiversity to landslide scars at both local and landscape scales. It explores nutrient cycling; soil development; and how soil organisms disperse, colonize, and interact in what is often an inhospitable environment. Recognizing the role that these processes play in providing solutions to the problem of unstable slopes, the authors present ecological approaches as useful, economical, and resilient supplements to landslide management"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Shiels, Aaron B.
Series
Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation
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Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Spatial patterns; 3. Physical causes and consequences; 4. Biological consequences; 5. Biotic interactions and temporal patterns; 6. Living with landslides; 7. Large scales and future directions for landslide ecology; Glossary; References; Index.