Investigating Landscape Change and Ecological Restoration | An Integrated Approach Using Historical Ecology and GIS in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Lisa Levesque
ISBN 10: 3639013727 ISBN 13: 9783639013726
Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2013
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Investigating Landscape Change and Ecological Restoration | An Integrated Approach Using Historical Ecology and GIS in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada | Lisa Levesque | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2013 | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639013726 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: OmniScriptum GmbH & Co. KG, Bahnhofstr. 28, 66111 Saarbrücken, info[at]akademikerverlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 101797480
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Despite remaining some of the most remote and unaltered landscapes in Canada, a combination of human and environmental forces have been continuously transforming the ecosystems of the Canadian Rocky Mountains for millenia. Understanding the magnitude, character, and implications of ecological change over time is challenging, and requires thorough investigation into both human and ecological histories. This research explores such change over the past century in the foothills parkland ecoregion of Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. It examines land cover dynamics, particularly aspen forest dynamics, explores the complex drivers behind these processes, and discusses the critical implications for ecosystem conservation and restoration within the Park. This work highlights the enormous value of utilizing multiple historical and contemporary data sources for inquiries into landscape change. Using historical and repeat survey photography (1914-2004), historical transect records (1889), aerial photography and GIS, this research successfully combines multiple data sources to tease out a nuanced understanding of landscape history with the Park over the past century.
About the Author: After moving west from Montreal, and falling in love with the Rocky Mountains, Lisa spent several years working and travelling in Latin America. She completed her masters degree in Geography & Environmental Science at the U. of Victoria, and has since landed in her current position as a researcher for the Forest Service in British Columbia, Canada.
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Title: Investigating Landscape Change and ...
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Taschenbuch
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