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The Ecology of Recently Deglaciated Terrain A Geoecological Approach to Glacier Forelands and Primary Succession

By: JA Matthews
386 pages, 7 b/w photos, illus, figs, tabs
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Glacier forelands provide a unique type of field laboratory for the study of landscape ecology. Their restricted physical size and the relatively simple ecosystems which they support allow comprehensive investigations to be carried out, but their particular attraction is the existence of terrain of increasing age with increasing distance from a retreating glacier, allowing inference of ecological change over long time periods.

This book provides the first comprehensive review of the available information on the ecology of recently-deglaciated terrain and evaluates critically the methodology currently employed in such studies. The theme developed is that the ecology of these regions can only be understood fully by giving due consideration to the role and interaction of both physical and biological processes in the development of the landscape. By adopting this geoecological approach, the spatial variation and dynamics of vegetation and soils are considered in relation to other aspects of the landscape such as topographic variation, climate and geomorphic processes. A geoecological model is thus outlined which provides both a framework for interpreting the varied ecological nature of glacier forelands found throughout the world, and also an agenda for future research.

Re-issue, originally published in hardcover in 1992.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The nature of the timescale; 3. The physical landscape; 4. Soil development; 5. Plant succession: patterns and environmental factors; 6. Plant succession: processes and models; 7. The ecological significance of recently-deglaciated terrain.

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By: JA Matthews
386 pages, 7 b/w photos, illus, figs, tabs
Media reviews

...a tour de force, exquisitely produced, profusely illustrated, and beautifully bound, with an extensive bibliography--the result is a remarkable scholarly achievement. Choice "...a definitive survey of scientific work on the geoecology of glacier forelands...I strongly recommend this book...A thorough understanding and conceptual integration of the independent and dependent variables which operate in developing natural systems requires very great skill. In my opinion Matthews has produced one of the best exposes ever done in this subject area." Colin J. Burrows, Arctic and Alpine Research

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