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  title info:
    title: Ecoregions
    sub title: The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents
  name:
    name part: Bailey, Robert G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 180 p. 134 illus., 54 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The first edition of this book (1998) classified and characterized the regional-scale ecosystem units (ecoregions) of the Earth as shown on a map that Bailey developed with the encouragement of several international organizations. In addition to the descriptive account, his primary goal was to suggest explanations of the mechanisms that act to produce the world pattern of ecoregion distribution, and to consider some of the implications for land use. He included ocean types, since understanding land regions depends on understanding ocean systems. The increasing importance of ecoregions is confirmed by the fact that much planning, research, and management efforts by the US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and other organizations are taking place now within the framework of ecoregions. Over years since the book was first published a number of studies have greatly contributed to a better understanding of the Earth’s ecoregions. This second edition is a completely updated and expanded version. New sections address how ecoregions are changing under the relentless influence of humans (such as modification of fire regimes and the introduction of invasive species) and climate change, the use of ecoregional patterns to transfer research results and select sites for detecting climate change effects on ecosystem distribution, and the use of ecoregional patterns to design monitoring networks and sustainable landscapes. From the reviews of the 1st edition: "Ecoregions offers an invaluable source of description, interpretation and analysis of global patterns of ecosystem distribution and successfully provides the reader with a means of making sense of these patterns." –Geography “… this volume provides two major advances over previous works … Bailey realizes that understanding continental systems requires a grasp of the enormous influence that ocean systems and mountain building exert on terrestrial climatic patterns…” –The Quarterly Review of Biology Ab…
  table of contents: 1. Introduction 2. Oceanic Types and Their Controls -- 3. The Ecoregions of the Oceans -- 4. Continental Types and Their Controls -- 5. Ecoregions of the Continents: The Polar Ecoregions -- 6. The Humid Temperate Ecoregions -- 7. The Dry Ecoregions -- 8. The Humid Tropical Ecoregions -- 9. The Mountain Ecoregions -- 10. Ecoregion Redistribution under Climate Change -- 11. Continental Patterns and Boundaries -- 12. Application of Ecoregional Patterns -- 13. Fire Regimes at the Ecoregion Scale -- 14. Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Air Masses and Frontal Zones -- Appendix B: Common and Scientific Names -- Appendix C. Conversion Factors -- Appendix D. Comparison of Ecoregion and Related Approaches.
  note: by Robert G. Bailey.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781493905249
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0524-9
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