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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The love of trees : concepts of place, origins and roots in economies of society and nature from Linnaeus to ecological restoration

Wilbert, Chris January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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An Ecological History of Tintic Valley, Juab County, Utah

Creque, Jeffrey A. 01 May 1996 (has links)
This work was a case study of historical ecological change in Tintic Valley, Juab County, Utah, an area historically impacted by mining and ranching activities common to much of the American West. The temporal framework for the study was approximately 120 years, the period of direct Euroamerican influence. In recognition of the ecological implications of cultural change, however, the impacts of prehistoric and protohistoric human activity on study area landscape patterns and processes were also explicitly addressed. The study included a narrative description of historic land uses and ecological change in Tintic Valley, and examined the changes in landscape patterns and processes so revealed within the context of the state and transition model of rangeland dynamics. The case of Tintic Valley thus served as a test of the heuristic utility of the theory of self-organization in ecological systems, within which the state and transition model is embedded. This theoretical framework in turn was used to gain insight into the present state of the Tintic landscape, how that state has changed over time, and the nature of those forces leading to transitions between system states in the historic period. The study employed archival research, personal interviews, repeat photography, field surveys, aerial photographs, and a geographic information system (GIS) to identify, describe, and quantify historic-era change in Tintic Valley landscape level patterns and processes. The analysis revealed dramatic change in both the landscape vegetation mosaic and the channel network of the study area over time. Evidence was found for direct anthropogenic influence in precipitating those changes, primarily through tree harvesting associated with mining and ranching activities and through the effects of historic roads and railroads on the Tintic Valley gully network. Results supported the working hypothesis of a change in system state in the Tintic Valley landscape in the historic period. Taken together, historical narrative and theoretical context permitted a degree of prediction with respect to potential future conditions for the study area under different management scenarios. Future research directions and implications of the research results for ecosystem management are also discussed.
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Geobiologia do Atol das Rocas, Atlântico Sul Equatorial

Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira January 2009 (has links)
Esta tese aborda a geobiologia do único Atol do Oceano Atlântico Sul. Diferentes classificações foram realizadas para o complexo recifal de Rocas ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX, as quais são avaliadas historicamente. Análises biogeomorfológicas e de mapeamento das unidades recifais foram realizadas no Atol das Rocas para a compreensão da dinâmica sedimentar e do relevo deste recife oceânico. Os diferentes compartimentos recifais são afetados por processos biogeomorfológicos como controle de processos erosivos, bioproteção, bioerosão recifal, bioturbação, cimentação de areia carbonática biogênica, produção de sedimentos biodetríticos e bioconstrução (principalmente de algas calcáreas, corais, vermetídeos e foraminíferos). Organismos diversos incluindo aves, peixes, tartarugas, corais, zoantídeos, algas, moluscos, poliquetas, sipunculídeos, foraminíferos e microorganismos agem nos diferentes grupos de processos biogeomorfológicos gerando as características únicas do Atol. O recife oceânico se desenvolveu provavelmente nos últimos 7000 anos do Período Neógeno. A paleohidrodinâmica da corrente oceânica, variações no gradiente de energia no lado a barlavento e sotavento e, sobretudo, as oscilações eustáticas holocênicas foram preponderantes na evolução recifal. Em níveis de mar alto uma grande laguna composta por comunidades bentônicas se formou com grande diversidade biológica. Eventos regressivos e de erosão por ação de ondas e correntes levou as feições observadas atualmente, tais como o ambiente lagunar raso (<6m profundidade), de um amplo depósito arenoso e das ilhas à sotavento. A dinâmica temporal e espacial de sete comunidades principais de ambientes submersos, intertidais e emersos é demonstrada pela primeira vez. / This thesis approaches the geobiology of the only Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean. Different classifications were made for Rocas Reef Complex along the nineteenth and twentieth century, which are evaluated historically. Biogeomorphological analysis and mapping of the reef units were done on the Rocas Atoll for the comprehension of the sedimentary dynamic and of the relief of this oceanic reef. The different reef compartments are affected by biogeomorphological processes such as erosive process control, bioprotection, bioerosion, bioturbation, cementing of the biogenic carbonate sand, production of biodetritic sediments and bioconstruction (especially of calcareous algae, vermetids, corals and foraminifers). Different organisms including birds, fishes, turtles, corals, zoanthids, algae, mollusks, polychaets, sipunculids, foraminifers and microorganisms act in the different groups of biogeomorphological processes generating the unique characteristics of the Atoll. The oceanic reef developed over the past 7000 years in the Neogene Period. The paleohydrodynamic of the oceanic current, variations of the gradient of energy on the leeward/windward side and, above all, the eustatic holocenic oscillations were predominant in the reef evolution. In high sea levels a lagoon composed by bentonic communities formed with great biological diversity. The regression and erosion by waves and currents led to the formation of shallow lagoon environment, extensive sandy deposit and the Islands in leeward side. The temporal and spatial dynamic of seven main communities of underwater, intertidal and emerged environments is shown for the first time.
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Geobiologia do Atol das Rocas, Atlântico Sul Equatorial

Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira January 2009 (has links)
Esta tese aborda a geobiologia do único Atol do Oceano Atlântico Sul. Diferentes classificações foram realizadas para o complexo recifal de Rocas ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX, as quais são avaliadas historicamente. Análises biogeomorfológicas e de mapeamento das unidades recifais foram realizadas no Atol das Rocas para a compreensão da dinâmica sedimentar e do relevo deste recife oceânico. Os diferentes compartimentos recifais são afetados por processos biogeomorfológicos como controle de processos erosivos, bioproteção, bioerosão recifal, bioturbação, cimentação de areia carbonática biogênica, produção de sedimentos biodetríticos e bioconstrução (principalmente de algas calcáreas, corais, vermetídeos e foraminíferos). Organismos diversos incluindo aves, peixes, tartarugas, corais, zoantídeos, algas, moluscos, poliquetas, sipunculídeos, foraminíferos e microorganismos agem nos diferentes grupos de processos biogeomorfológicos gerando as características únicas do Atol. O recife oceânico se desenvolveu provavelmente nos últimos 7000 anos do Período Neógeno. A paleohidrodinâmica da corrente oceânica, variações no gradiente de energia no lado a barlavento e sotavento e, sobretudo, as oscilações eustáticas holocênicas foram preponderantes na evolução recifal. Em níveis de mar alto uma grande laguna composta por comunidades bentônicas se formou com grande diversidade biológica. Eventos regressivos e de erosão por ação de ondas e correntes levou as feições observadas atualmente, tais como o ambiente lagunar raso (<6m profundidade), de um amplo depósito arenoso e das ilhas à sotavento. A dinâmica temporal e espacial de sete comunidades principais de ambientes submersos, intertidais e emersos é demonstrada pela primeira vez. / This thesis approaches the geobiology of the only Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean. Different classifications were made for Rocas Reef Complex along the nineteenth and twentieth century, which are evaluated historically. Biogeomorphological analysis and mapping of the reef units were done on the Rocas Atoll for the comprehension of the sedimentary dynamic and of the relief of this oceanic reef. The different reef compartments are affected by biogeomorphological processes such as erosive process control, bioprotection, bioerosion, bioturbation, cementing of the biogenic carbonate sand, production of biodetritic sediments and bioconstruction (especially of calcareous algae, vermetids, corals and foraminifers). Different organisms including birds, fishes, turtles, corals, zoanthids, algae, mollusks, polychaets, sipunculids, foraminifers and microorganisms act in the different groups of biogeomorphological processes generating the unique characteristics of the Atoll. The oceanic reef developed over the past 7000 years in the Neogene Period. The paleohydrodynamic of the oceanic current, variations of the gradient of energy on the leeward/windward side and, above all, the eustatic holocenic oscillations were predominant in the reef evolution. In high sea levels a lagoon composed by bentonic communities formed with great biological diversity. The regression and erosion by waves and currents led to the formation of shallow lagoon environment, extensive sandy deposit and the Islands in leeward side. The temporal and spatial dynamic of seven main communities of underwater, intertidal and emerged environments is shown for the first time.
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Geobiologia do Atol das Rocas, Atlântico Sul Equatorial

Soares, Marcelo de Oliveira January 2009 (has links)
Esta tese aborda a geobiologia do único Atol do Oceano Atlântico Sul. Diferentes classificações foram realizadas para o complexo recifal de Rocas ao longo dos séculos XIX e XX, as quais são avaliadas historicamente. Análises biogeomorfológicas e de mapeamento das unidades recifais foram realizadas no Atol das Rocas para a compreensão da dinâmica sedimentar e do relevo deste recife oceânico. Os diferentes compartimentos recifais são afetados por processos biogeomorfológicos como controle de processos erosivos, bioproteção, bioerosão recifal, bioturbação, cimentação de areia carbonática biogênica, produção de sedimentos biodetríticos e bioconstrução (principalmente de algas calcáreas, corais, vermetídeos e foraminíferos). Organismos diversos incluindo aves, peixes, tartarugas, corais, zoantídeos, algas, moluscos, poliquetas, sipunculídeos, foraminíferos e microorganismos agem nos diferentes grupos de processos biogeomorfológicos gerando as características únicas do Atol. O recife oceânico se desenvolveu provavelmente nos últimos 7000 anos do Período Neógeno. A paleohidrodinâmica da corrente oceânica, variações no gradiente de energia no lado a barlavento e sotavento e, sobretudo, as oscilações eustáticas holocênicas foram preponderantes na evolução recifal. Em níveis de mar alto uma grande laguna composta por comunidades bentônicas se formou com grande diversidade biológica. Eventos regressivos e de erosão por ação de ondas e correntes levou as feições observadas atualmente, tais como o ambiente lagunar raso (<6m profundidade), de um amplo depósito arenoso e das ilhas à sotavento. A dinâmica temporal e espacial de sete comunidades principais de ambientes submersos, intertidais e emersos é demonstrada pela primeira vez. / This thesis approaches the geobiology of the only Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean. Different classifications were made for Rocas Reef Complex along the nineteenth and twentieth century, which are evaluated historically. Biogeomorphological analysis and mapping of the reef units were done on the Rocas Atoll for the comprehension of the sedimentary dynamic and of the relief of this oceanic reef. The different reef compartments are affected by biogeomorphological processes such as erosive process control, bioprotection, bioerosion, bioturbation, cementing of the biogenic carbonate sand, production of biodetritic sediments and bioconstruction (especially of calcareous algae, vermetids, corals and foraminifers). Different organisms including birds, fishes, turtles, corals, zoanthids, algae, mollusks, polychaets, sipunculids, foraminifers and microorganisms act in the different groups of biogeomorphological processes generating the unique characteristics of the Atoll. The oceanic reef developed over the past 7000 years in the Neogene Period. The paleohydrodynamic of the oceanic current, variations of the gradient of energy on the leeward/windward side and, above all, the eustatic holocenic oscillations were predominant in the reef evolution. In high sea levels a lagoon composed by bentonic communities formed with great biological diversity. The regression and erosion by waves and currents led to the formation of shallow lagoon environment, extensive sandy deposit and the Islands in leeward side. The temporal and spatial dynamic of seven main communities of underwater, intertidal and emerged environments is shown for the first time.
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Conservation Competition: Perspectives on Agricultural Drainage During the New Deal Era

Allen, Davis 13 September 2016 (has links)
No description available.

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