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Legacy Effects
L. Allan James
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Legacy Effects Introduction Legacy effects are environmental changes resulting from antecedent human disturbances. The disturbance may be a re...
Lidar in Environmental Science, Use of
Adrian Harpold
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Use of Lidar in Environmental Science Introduction Light detection and ranging (lidar) is a technology that allows construction of three-dimen...
Management, Australia's Environment
I.D. Rutherfurd
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Australia’s Environment and Its ManagementIntroductionThe Southern Hemisphere island continent of Australia (7 million km2) is old, flat, stable, and ...
Mangroves
Daniel Friess
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
MangrovesIntroductionIntertidal mangrove forests are a wetland ecosystem composed of halophytic tree and shrub species and associated terrestrial and ...
Marine Mining
Andrew David Thaler
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Marine Mining Introduction In his underwater epic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869), Jules Verne speculated that the seafloor would one day ...
Marine Protected Areas
Elizabeth De Santo
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Marine Protected AreasIntroductionMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a key tool in ecosystem-based management, implementing a spatial approach to biodi...
Mediterranean Environments
Harriet D. Allen
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Mediterranean EnvironmentsIntroductionMediterranean environments are found in the Mediterranean Basin itself, California (including Baja-California, M...
Mountain Environments
Ellen Wohl
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Mountain EnvironmentsIntroductionMountain ranges occur on every continent, at latitudes from the equator almost to both poles. A region is defined as ...
Muir, John
Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
John MuirIntroductionJohn Muir (b. 21 April 1838–d. 24 December 1914) was one of the foremost naturalists in the United States, widely known for his e...
Multiple Stable States and Regime Shifts
James Heffernan, Xiaoli Dong, Anna Braswell
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Multiple Stable States and Regime ShiftsIntroductionWhy do ecological systems (populations, communities, and ecosystems) change suddenly in response t...
Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Case Study in Market-Based Approach to Water Sharing in Australia
Sarah Ann Wheeler
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Case Study in Market-Based Approach to Water Sharing In AustraliaIntroductionThe Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) is an area in s...
Natural Fluvial Ecohydraulics
Gregory B. Pasternack
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Natural Fluvial EcohydraulicsIntroductionEcohydraulics is the study of the mechanisms that explain hierarchically nested aquatic and riparian biotic p...
Nitrogen Cycle, Human Manipulation of the Global
Eve-Lyn S. Hinckley
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Human Manipulation of the Global Nitrogen Cycle Introduction Ecosystems and all living beings are bathed in atmospheric N2, a nearly inert gas...
Non-Renewable Resource Depletion and Use
Simon M. Jowitt
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Non-Renewable Resource Depletion and UseIntroductionModern society relies on an increasing number of minerals and metals, meaning that over time produ...
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Kyle Dell
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Frederick Law Olmsted Introduction Frederick Law Olmsted (b. 1822–d. 1903) is regarded as the father of American landscape architecture for go...
Pedology
Eric C. Brevik, David C. Weindorf, Cynthia Stiles
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
PedologyIntroductionIn modern soil science pedology is widely viewed as the study of soils in their natural environment. Pedology has a fairly lengthy...
Periglacial Environments
Hugh French
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Periglacial Environments Introduction Periglacial environments are cold non-glacial environments characterized by frost action. They include t...
Permafrost
Ellen Wohl
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
PermafrostIntroductionPermafrost is permanently frozen ground that remains continuously below 0 °C for two or more years. The upper level of permafros...
Physics, Environmental
Michael H. Unsworth
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Environmental PhysicsIntroductionIn this article, environmental physics is defined as the branch of physics concerned with the measurement and analysi...
Psychology, Environmental
Alexander Maki
Subject: Environmental Science »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Environmental PsychologyIntroductionPsychology is often defined as the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Given this definition, psychology is...
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