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Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils

Name: Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils
Brand: Elsevier
SKU: 9780128217252
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Contributor(s): Phillips, Jonathan D. Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780128217252
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication date	May 2021
Language	English
MRP	£118.00 GBP
Page count	358
Item weight	136 g

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.

Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils

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Phillips, Jonathan D. Author

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