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Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Hawai'i as a Model System

By: Peter M. Vitousek

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Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Hawai'i as a Model System

By: Peter M. Vitousek

The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial communities, nutrient cycling and limitation are the basic mechanisms underlying ecosystem ecology. In this book, Peter Vitousek builds on over twenty years of research in Hawai'i to evaluate the controls and consequences of variation in nutrient availability and limitation. Integrating research from geochemistry, pedology, atmospheric chemistry, ecophysiology, and ecology, Vitousek addresses fundamental questions: How do the cycles of different elements interact? How do biological processes operating in minutes or hours interact with geochemical processes operating over millions of years? How does biological diversity interact with nutrient cycling and limitation in ecosystems? The Hawaiian Islands provide the author with an excellent model system for answering these questions as he integrates across levels of biological organization. He evaluates the connections between plant nutrient use efficiency, nutrient cycling and limitation within ecosystems, and nutrient input-output budgets of ecosystems. This book makes use of the Hawaiian ecosystems to explore the mechanisms that shape productivity and diversity in ecosystems throughout the world. It will be essential reading for all ecologists and environmental scientists.

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Princeton University Press

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0691190348

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9780691190341

Power of the Talking Stick

Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis

By: Sharon J Ridgeway,Peter J Jacques

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Power of the Talking Stick

Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis

By: Sharon J Ridgeway,Peter J Jacques

The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalisation, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life support systems. This book offers an alternative, listening to indigenous leaders and others whose voices often go unheard in the din of contemporary culture. Sharon Ridgeway and Peter Jacques offer a stark warning, but their insights are firmly grounded in traditional knowledge and provide a way to see past the politics and rescue the earth. An important resource for climate activists, students and academics.

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211

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Routledge

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1317253620

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9781317253624

Islands and Cultures

How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability

By: Kamanamaikalani Beamer,Te Maire Tau,Peter M. Vitousek

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Islands and Cultures

How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability

By: Kamanamaikalani Beamer,Te Maire Tau,Peter M. Vitousek

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered. The authors of this book analyze the formation of their human-environment systems using oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records, arguing that the Polynesian islands can serve as useful models for how human societies in general interact with their environments. The islands’ clearly defined (and relatively isolated) environments, comparatively recent discovery by humans, and innovative and dynamic societies allow for insights not available when studying other cultures. Kamana Beamer, Te Maire Tau, and Peter Vitousek have collaborated with a dozen other scholars, many of them Polynesian, to show how these cultures adapted to novel environments in the past and how we can draw insights for global sustainability today.

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Yale University Press

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0300268394

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9780300268393

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Hawai'i as a Model System

By: Peter M. Vitousek

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Hawai'i as a Model System

By: Peter M. Vitousek

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Book's by Peter M. Vitousek

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Power of the Talking Stick

Power of the Talking Stick

Islands and Cultures

Islands and Cultures

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

Nutrient Cycling and Limitation

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