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The changing environment of northern Michigan : a century of science and nature at the University of Michigan Biological Station / edited by Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Alan J. Hogg, Jr., and Brian A. Hazlett.

Nadelhoffer, Knute J. (Added Author). Hogg, Alan J. (Added Author). Hazlett, Brian A. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan Biological Station has monitored these environmental transformations. Stretching 10,000 acres along Burt and Douglas Lakes in the northern Lower Peninsula and 3,200 acres on Sugar Island near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the station has played host to nearly 10,000 students and a steady stream of top scientists in the fields of biology, ecology, geology, archeology, and climatology." "The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan collects essays by some of these scientists, who lead readers on virtual field trips exploring the history of people and science at the station itself, the relations of indigenous people to the land, the geophysical history of the region, characteristics of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, key groups of organisms and their relations to local habitats, and perspectives on critical environmental challenges of today and their effects on the region. Accompanying the chapters are color illustrations and photographs that bring the station's pristine setting to life."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780472070756 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472070754 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780472050758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472050753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: x, 214 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : a history of the University of Michigan Biological Station / David M. Gates -- Human history / Scott Herron -- Landforms, physical landscapes, and glacial history / Randall J. Schaetzl and Burton V. Barnes -- Vegetation history and change, 1840-2009 / Burton V. Barnes -- Aquatic ecosystems of northern Michigan / Rex Lowe, Robert Pillsbury, and Amy J. Schrank -- Terrestrial vascular plants / Edward G. Voss -- The fungi / Marilynn Smith -- Aquatic vascular plants / C. Barre Helquist -- Algae of northern Michigan and the Douglas Lake region / J. Patrick Kociolek, Rex L. Lowe, and Eugene F. Stoermer -- Lichens in northern Michigan / James P. Bennett -- Mosses of northern Michigan / William R. Buck -- Ornithology in northern Michigan / Francesca J. Cuthbert, Ted R. Anderson, and Mary Whitmore -- Mammals / Phil Myers and Barb Lundrigan -- Biological station fishes / Paul W. Webb and Amy J. Schrank -- Reptiles and amphibians / Joel T. Heinen and Michael E. Grant -- Insects : a strength in numbers / Brian A. Scholtens -- Swimmer's itch : misguided flatworms / Harvey D. Blankespoor -- Climate changes / Steven B. Bertman -- Invasive species / Brian A. Hazlett and Allison Snow -- Effects of climate change on terrestrial communities / David Karowe -- Aquatic impacts / Robert Pillsbury -- The future and the biological station / Knute J. Nadelhoffer.