Patterns of land degradation in drylands : understanding self-organised ecogeomorphic systems /

Patterns of land degradation in drylands : understanding self-organised ecogeomorphic systems /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2013.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Land degradation.
Arid regions ecology.
Arid regions ecology.
Land degradation.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11080127
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Other authors / contributors:Mueller, Eva Nora.
ISBN:9789400757271
9400757271
9789400757264
9400757263
Notes:Includes index.
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Summary:Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem. Consequently, current management approaches that attempt to mitigate such land degradation often fail to produce significant improvements. The processes associated with land degradation in drylands fall at the interface of ecology and geomorphology. For a better understanding of this degradation, there is a need to uncover the underlying dynamics and characteristic responses to environmental drivers and human-induced disturbances. A primary characteristic of this land degradation is a change in processes and the emergence of patterns; but there remain many unknowns as to how these changing processes and emerging patterns are connected. In the first section of this keystone manual, the theory of ecogeomorphic pattern-process linkages is explored, establishing an integrated view of current concepts of pattern emergence and self-organization from an ecogeomorphic perspective. The second section of the book explores methods for confronting models with data for the study of pattern-process linkages, bringing together divergent empirical and modelling methodologies to provide a fully integrated understanding of land degradation in drylands. Four case studies from drylands in Europe, Africa, Australia and North America outline the advances in ecogeomorphic research that have been made in these systems. Learning from this diverse range of studies and approaches, a research agenda for theemerging field of ecogeomorphology in land-degradation studies in drylands is set forth.
Other form:Print version: Patterns of land degradation in drylands. Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2013 9789400757264

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505 0 0 |t Land Degradation in Drylands: An Ecogeomorphological Approach /  |r Eva Nora Mueller, John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons and Laura Turnbull --  |t Theory: Linking Process to Pattern --  |t The Study of Land Degradation in Drylands: State of the Art /  |r Tamara Hochstrasser, James D.A. Millington, Vasilios P. Papanastasis [and 5 others] --  |t Resilience, Self-Organization, Complexity and Pattern Formation /  |r Florian Jeltsch, Laura Turnbull, Stefania Scarsoglio, Concepcion L. Alados [and 7 others] --  |t Short-Range Ecogeomorphic Processes in Dryland Systems /  |r Nicolas Barbier, Juan Bellot, Pierre Couteron, Anthony J. Parsons and Eva Nora Mueller --  |t Long-Range Ecogeomorphic Processes /  |r Artemi Cerdà, Francesc Gallart, Junran Li, Vasilios P. Papanastasis [and 4 others]--  |t Integrating Short- and Long-Range Processes into Models: The Emergence of Pattern /  |r Kelly K. Caylor, Greg S. Okin, Laura Turnbull, John Wainwright, Thorsten Wiegand [and 2 others] --  |t Methods for Confronting Models with Data --  |t Approaches to Modelling Ecogeomorphic Systems /  |r Laura Turnbull, Tamara Hochstrasser, Mareike Wieczorek, Andreas Baas, John Wainwright [and 4 others] --  |t Characterizing Patterns /  |r Pierre Couteron, Philip Hunke, Juan Bellot, Joan Estrany, Núria Martínez-Carreras [and 4 others] --  |t Assessment of Patterns in Ecogeomorphic Systems /  |r Nicolas Barbier, Juan Bellot, Pierre Couteron, Thorsten Wiegand, Volker Grimm [and 3 others] --  |t Uncertainty Assessment /  |r Richard E. Brazier, Tobias Krueger and John Wainwright --  |t Case Studies --  |t Vegetation Change in the Southwestern USA: Patterns and Processes /  |r Laura Turnbull, John Wainwright and Sujith Ravi --  |t Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence /  |r David L. Dunkerley --  |t Case Study of Self-Organized Vegetation Patterning in Dryland Regions of Central Africa /  |r Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron and Vincent Deblauwe --  |t Abandonment of Agricultural Land, Agricultural Policy and Land Degradation in Mediterranean Europe /  |r Anthony J. Parsons --  |t Land Degradation in Drylands: Reëvaluating Pattern-Process Interrelationships and the Role of Ecogeomorphology /  |r Eva Nora Mueller, John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, Laura Turnbull [and 2 others]. 
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