Transport Processes in Nature Hardback with CD-ROM
Transport Processes in Nature PB with CD-ROM
Propagation of Ecological Influences Through Environmental Space
July 2004
Mixed media product
9780521804844
$106.00
USDMixed media product
1 Paperback, 1 CD-ROM
William Reiners and Kenneth Driese introduce a conceptual framework for studying the propagation of ecological influences across landscapes. They also provide examples of models that describe and predict propagation. Their volume is an excellent graduate-level introduction to the field of landscape ecology, which is concerned with the effects of spatial patterns on ecological processes, especially the movement of organisms, abiotic materials and energy across landscapes.
- Superb synthesis of the ways in which events or conditions in one area have an ecological consequence elsewhere
- Provides an introduction to models that describe and predict the movement of these influences across natural environments
- Interactive models provided on a CD included with the book
Product details
July 2004Mixed media product
9780521804844
314 pages
247 × 175 × 15 mm
0.686kg
104 b/w illus. 6 tables
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Part I:
- 1. Flows and movements in ecology
- 2. Causes, mechanisms and consequences of propagating influences
- 3. How do we see nature?
- 4. Representing and predicting propagation phenomena: modeling in explicit-realistic space
- Part II:
- 5. Introduction to Part II
- 6. Diffusion
- 7. Colluvial transport
- 8. Wind transport
- 9. Fire
- 10. Fluvial transport
- 11. Animal movement
- 12. Electromagnetic radiation
- 13. The propagation of sound
- References
- Index.
