Research Catalog

Title

The changing mile revisited : an ecological study of vegetation change with time in the lower mile of an arid and semiarid region / Raymond M. Turner ... [et al.].

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turner, R. M. (Raymond M.)
• Hastings, James Rodney

Description

xvi, 334 p. : ill., maps; 32 cm.

Summary

• "The Changing Mile, originally published in 1965, was a benchmark in ecological studies, demonstrating the prevalence of change in a seemingly changeless place. Photographs made throughout the Sonoran Desert region in the late 1800s and early 1900s were juxtaposed with photographs of the same locations taken many decades later. The nearly one hundred pairs of images revealed that climate has played a strong role in initiating many changes in the region.".
• "This new book updates the classic by adding recent photographs to the original pairs, providing another three decades of data and showing even more clearly the extent of change across the landscape. Using nearly two hundred additional triplicate sets of unpublished photographs, The Changing Mile Revisited utilizes repeat photographs selected from almost three hundred stations located in southern Arizona, in the Pinacate region of Mexico, and along the coast of the Gulf of California."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Repeat photography > Arizona
• Vegetation dynamics > Arizona
• Repeat photography > Mexico
• Desert ecology > Mexico
• Desert ecology > Arizona
• Vegetation dynamics > Mexico

Note

• Follow-up to The changing mile / James Rodney Hastings and Raymond M. Turner. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1965.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index.

Contents

1. The Desert Habitat -- 2. The Influence of American Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans -- 3. The Influence of Anglo-Americans -- 4. The Oak Woodland -- 5. The Grassland -- 6. The Desert -- 7. The Pattern of Change -- 8. Change and Cause -- App. 1. Climate Stations in Arizona and Sonora -- App. 2. Common and Latin Plant Names -- App. 3. Details of Photographic Stations and Photo Credits.

ISBN

0816523061 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002015042

OCLC

• ocm50630512
• SCSB-4798940

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries