Landscape Evolution
Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils
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Product details:
- Publisher Elsevier Science
- Date of Publication 6 May 2021
- ISBN 9780128217252
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 234x190 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English 159
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Long description:
Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems and Soils asks us to think holistically, to look for the interactions between the Earth's component surface systems, to consider how universal laws and historical and geographical contingency work together, and to ponder the implications of nonlinear dynamics in landscapes, ecosystems, and soils. Development, evolution, landforms, topography, soils, ecosystems, and hydrological systems are inextricably intertwined. While empirical studies increasingly incorporate these interactions, theories and conceptual frameworks addressing landforms, soils, and ecosystems are pursued largely independently. This is partly due to different academic disciplines, traditions, and lexicons involved, and partly due to the disparate time scales sometimes encountered. Landscape Evolution explicitly synthesizes and integrates these theories and threads of inquiry, arguing that all are guided by a general principle of efficiency selection. A key theme is that evolutionary trends are probabilistic, emergent outcomes of efficiency selection rather than purported goal functions. This interdisciplinary reference will be useful for academic and research scientists across the Earth sciences.
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1. An integrated approach to landscape evolution2. Earth surface systems as supraorganisms3. Observing landscape evolution4. It depends on the scale: scale contingency in landscape evolution5. Historical contingency in landscape evolution6. Attractors and goal functions in landscape evolution7. Thresholds, tipping points, and instability8. Selection and landscape evolution9. The perfect landscape10. Landscape evolution and environmental change
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