Hemlock : a forest giant on the edge /
The eastern hemlock has played a unique role in structuring northeastern forest environments. A "foundation species" influencing all the species in the ecosystem surrounding it. Five thousand years ago, the hemlock collapsed as a result of abrupt global climate change, perhaps interacting...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | The eastern hemlock has played a unique role in structuring northeastern forest environments. A "foundation species" influencing all the species in the ecosystem surrounding it. Five thousand years ago, the hemlock collapsed as a result of abrupt global climate change, perhaps interacting with an unknown insect or pathology. Now this tree faces total decline once again because of an invasive insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Drawing from a century of studies at Harvard University's Harvard Forest, the authors explore what hemlock's modern decline can tell us about the challenges facing nature and society in an era of habitat changes and fragmentation, as well as global change.-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300179385 0300179383 |