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Expert Group Meeting Research And Training In Andean Mountain Ecosystems South And Central Andes Of Chile And Argentina
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Book Synopsis Expert Group Meeting, Research and Training in Andean Mountain Ecosystems South and Central Andes of Chile and Argentina by : Unesco. Programme on Man and the Biosphere
Download or read book Expert Group Meeting, Research and Training in Andean Mountain Ecosystems South and Central Andes of Chile and Argentina written by Unesco. Programme on Man and the Biosphere and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :International Co-ordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis Regional Meeting on Integrated Ecological Research and Training Needs in the Andean Region by : International Co-ordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
Download or read book Regional Meeting on Integrated Ecological Research and Training Needs in the Andean Region written by International Co-ordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile by : Peter G. DeCelles
Download or read book Geodynamics of a Cordilleran Orogenic System: The Central Andes of Argentina and Northern Chile written by Peter G. DeCelles and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir brings together results from a multidisciplinary study of the processes that have formed the highest, widest part of the Andean Cordilleran orogenic belt in northern Argentina and Chile. The region features a tectonically erosive forearc, protracted arc magmatism, a high-elevation hinterland plateau and strongly shortened retroarc thrust belt, and a Paleocene-Recent foreland basin system"--
Book Synopsis Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments by : María Eugenia Farías
Download or read book Microbial Ecosystems in Central Andes Extreme Environments written by María Eugenia Farías and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Andean Altiplane represents a unique extreme environment due to its high altitude, closed basins that modulate the salt pans and saline wetlands surrounded by deserts, as well as the considerable influence of volcanic activity. UV radiation, arsenic content, high salinity, alkalinity and low dissolved oxygen levels, together with extreme daily temperature fluctuations and oligotrophic conditions, shape an environment that resembles the early Earth and, even more, extraterrestrial conditions. By developing simple biofilms stratified microbial mats or complex microbialites, extreme microbial ecosystems, colonize and thrived in different environments like salt flats, wetlands, lakes volcano vents, geysers and deserts. This book presents our current understanding of these amazing ecosystems, providing a basis for their protection and sustainable utilization. The main audience for this book included researchers and graduate students as well as professionals working in the government, mining industry and similar activities.
Book Synopsis State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems by :
Download or read book State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes by : Andrés Folguera
Download or read book The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes written by Andrés Folguera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation between ocean bathymetry and deformation. Sources of detritus through Andean construction are discussed by specialists from both sides of the Southern Andes. This book provides up-to-date reviews, maps, evolutionary schemes and extensive reference lists useful for geoscientists and students in Earth Science fields.
Book Synopsis Regional Meeting on Integrated Ecological Research and Training Needs in the Andean Region by :
Download or read book Regional Meeting on Integrated Ecological Research and Training Needs in the Andean Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Montane Foragers by : Mark S. Aldenderfer
Download or read book Montane Foragers written by Mark S. Aldenderfer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All previous books dealing with prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the high Andes have treated ancient mountain populations from a troglodyte's perspective, as if they were little different from lowlanders who happened to occupy jagged terrain. Early mountain populations have been transformed into generic foragers because the basic nature of high-altitude stress and biological adaptation has not been addressed. In Montane Foragers, Mark Aldenderfer builds a unique and penetrating model of montane foraging that justly shatters this traditional approach to ancient mountain populations. Aldenderfer's investigation forms a methodological and theoretical tour de force that elucidates elevational stress—what it takes for humans to adjust and survive at high altitudes. In a masterful integration of mountain biology and ecology, he emphasizes the nature of hunter-gatherer adaptations to high-mountain environments. He carefully documents the cultural history of Asana, the first stratified, open-air site discovered in the highlands of the south-central Andes. He establishes a number of major occurrences at this revolutionary site, including the origins of plant and animal domestication and transitions to food production, the growth and packing of forager populations, and the advent of some form of complexity and social hierarchy. The rich and diversified archaeological record recovered at Asana—which spans from 10,000 to 3,500 years ago—includes the earliest houses as well as public and ceremonial buildings in the central cordillera. Built, used, and abandoned over many millennia, the Asana structures completely transform our understanding of the antiquity and development of native American architecture. Aldenderfer's detailed archaeological case study of high-elevation foraging adaptation, his description of this extreme environment as a viable human habitat, and his theoretical model of montane foraging create a new understanding of the lifeways of foraging peoples worldwide.
Book Synopsis Acclimatization in the Andes by : Monge Medrano Monge M.
Download or read book Acclimatization in the Andes written by Monge Medrano Monge M. and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Development with Identity by : Robert E. Rhoades
Download or read book Development with Identity written by Robert E. Rhoades and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are demanding that development must address localpriorities, including ethnic identity. Simultaneously, sustainability scientists need to conduct place-basedresearch on the interaction between environment and society that will have global relevance.This book reports on a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on natural resource management inCotacachi, Ecuador, where scientists and indigenous groups learnt to seek common ground. The bookdiscusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to createcontemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation tobiodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development. This book will be of significant interest tosociologists, anthropologists, economists and sustainability scientists researching environment andagriculture in rural communities.
Book Synopsis Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments by : Ludomir R Lozny
Download or read book Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments written by Ludomir R Lozny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that humans have been living in this type of habitat for thousands of year. From this evidence we can also see that mountainous regions are often frontier zones of competing polities and form refuge areas for dissident communities as they often are inherently difficult to control by centralized authorities. As a consequence they fuel or contribute disproportionately to political violence. But we are now witnessing changes and increasing vulnerability of mountain ecosystems caused by human activities. Human adaptability to mountain ecosystems This volume presents an international and interdisciplinary account of the exploitation of--and human adaptation to--mountainous regions over time. The contributions discuss human cultural responses to key physical and cultural stressors associated with mountain ecosystems, such as aridity, quality of soils, steep slopes, low productivity, as well as transient phenomena such as changing weather patterns, deforestation and erosion, and the possible effects of climate change. This volume will be of interest to anthropologists, ecologists and geologists as mountainous landscapes change fast and cultures disappear and they need to be recorded, and mountain regions are of interest for studies on environmental change and cultural responses of mountain populations provide clues for us all. Critical to understanding mountain adaptations is our comprehension of human decision-making and how people view short- and long-term outcomes.
Book Synopsis Mountain, Field, and Family by : Stephen B. Brush
Download or read book Mountain, Field, and Family written by Stephen B. Brush and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plant Hunters in the Andes by : Thomas Harper Goodspeed
Download or read book Plant Hunters in the Andes written by Thomas Harper Goodspeed and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethnobotany of the Andes by : Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
Download or read book Ethnobotany of the Andes written by Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly. Various societies of such professionals include the Society for Economic Botany, the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, the Society of Ethnobiology, the International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field that currently have thousands of members. Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. This new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions covers the latest scholarship in the field of mountain research. It offers the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution was scientifically rigorous and contributes to the overall field of study.
Book Synopsis The Influence of Climate and Tectonics on the Geomorphology of the Western Slope of the Central Andes, Chile and Peru by : Gregory D. Hoke
Download or read book The Influence of Climate and Tectonics on the Geomorphology of the Western Slope of the Central Andes, Chile and Peru written by Gregory D. Hoke and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems by : Dennis V. Johnson
Download or read book State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems written by Dennis V. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cushion Peatlands in the High Andes of Northwestern Argentina as Archives for Palaeoenvironmental Research by : Karsten Schittek
Download or read book Cushion Peatlands in the High Andes of Northwestern Argentina as Archives for Palaeoenvironmental Research written by Karsten Schittek and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-Andean cushion peatlands contain valuable climate information for palaeoenvironmental research. They respond very sensitively to environmental changes and therefore are ideal to apply methods such as geochemical, macrofossil and statistical evaluations in order to reconstruct palaeoclimates. The benefits of these geoarchives are that they are comparable accross climatic gradients, that they feature high rates of accumulation and therefore time resolution and that their peat deposits are of high quality which lend themselves to precise 14C-dating. The author is able to demonstrate that fire has played an important role in the ecology of high-altitude Andean grassland vegetation during the past millennia. Macroscopic analysis of charred particles from the sedimentary records of two high-altitude peatlands of the Eastern Cordillera of Northwestern Argentina were able to provide important information on variations in local fire regimes in the past, hence offering insights into climatic variations and the subsequent response of the high-Andean vegetation during the Holocene. The results provide evidence that Northern Hemisphere temperature oscillations were extensive and affected the intensity of moisture flux within the South American summer monsoon belt. This study is among the first to consider plant macrofossils (tissue remains and seeds), zoological macrofossils (Neorhabdocoela and Copepoda) and fungal spores (Glomus spec.) extracted from Andean peat accumulations.
