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xxvii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 29 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references, webography and index. |
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Historical facts/biological questions -- Linkage between people and ecosystems: how did we get from separate to equal -- Symbioses between biologists and scientists -- Hudson River fisheries: once robust, now reduced -- Herpetofauna of the Hudson River watershed: a short history -- Human impacts on Hudson River morphology and sediments: a result of changing uses and interests -- The earliest thirteen millennia of cultural adaptation along the Hudson River estuary -- Archaeological indices of environmental change and colonial ethnobotany in seventeenth-century Dutch New Amsterdam -- Linking uplands to the Hudson River: lake to marsh records of climate change and human impact over millennia -- Vegetation dynamics in the northern Shawangunk Mountains: the last three hundred years -- Agriculture in the Hudson Basin since 1609 -- Ecology in the field of time: two centuries of interaction between agriculture and native species in Columbia COunty, New York -- The introduction and naturalization of exotic ornamental plants in New York's Hudson River Valley -- The rise and demise of the Hudson River ice harvesting industry: urban needs and rural responses -- Human sanitary waters and waste treatment in New York City -- Foundry Cove: icon of the interaction of industry with aquatic life -- River city: transporting commerce and culture -- Out of the Fray: scientific legacy of environmental regulation of electric generating stations in the HudsonRiver Valley -- Birth of the environmental movement in the Hudson River Valley -- The influence of the Hudson River school of art in the preservation of the river, its natural and cultural landscape, and evolution of the environmental law -- "Thy fate and mine are not repose": the Hudson and its influence -- The past as guide to a successful future. |
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Human ecology -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Natural history -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
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Natural history. |
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Environmentalism -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
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Environmentalism. |
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Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
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| Added Author |
Henshaw, Robert E., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781438440262 paperback alkaline paper |
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143844026X paperback alkaline paper |
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9781438440279 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1438440278 hardcover alkaline paper |
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