Repeat Photography

ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781597267137

Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences

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Edited by Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, Raymond M. Turner
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Foreword \ George E. Gruell

Preface

 

PART I. Techniques

Chapter 1. Introduction: A Brief History of Repeat Photography \ Robert H. Webb, Raymond M. Turner, and Diane E. Boyer

Chapter 2. Techniques of Matching and Archiving Repeat Photography Used in the Desert Laboratory Collection \ Diane E. Boyer, Robert H. Webb, and Raymond M. Turner

Chapter 3. Virtual Repeat Photography \ Thomas C. Hanks, J. Luke Blair, and Robert H. Webb

Chapter 4. Three Methods of Presenting Repeat Photographs: Exploring Digital Media and the Context for the View, Connecting Two or More Photographs in a Continuous Space, and Extending the Information Contained by the Original View \ Mark Klett

Chapter 5. Using Fixed-Point Photography, Field Surveys, and GIS to Monitor Environmental Change in Riemvasmaak, South Africa \ M. Timm Hoffman and Simon W. Todd

 

PART II. Applications in the Geosciences

Chapter 6. Repeat Photography of Alaskan Glaciers and Landscapes from Ground-Based Photo Stations and Airborne Platforms \ Bruce F. Molnia

Chapter 7. Documenting Disappearing Glaciers: Repeat Photography at Glacier National Park, Montana, USA \ Daniel B. Fagre and Lisa A. McKeon

Chapter 8. Historical Arroyo Formation: Documentation of Magnitude and Timing of Changes Using Repeat Photography \ Robert H. Webb and Richard Hereford

Chapter 9. Clearcutting, Reforestation, and the Coming of the Interstate: Vermont's Photographic Record of Landscape Use and Response \ Paul Bierman

 

PART III. Applications in Population Ecology

Chapter 10. Population Fluxes in the Sonoran Desert Shown by Repeat Photography \ Stephen H. Bullock and Raymond M. Turner

Chapter 11. Repeat Photography, Climate Change, and the Long-Term Population Dynamics of Tree Aloes in Southern Africa \  M. Timm Hoffman, Richard F. Rohde, John Duncan, and Prince Kaleme

 

PART IV. Applications in Ecosystem Change

Chapter 12. Temporal Dynamics and Spatial Variability in Desert Grassland Vegetation of Southern Arizona, USA \ Mitchel P. McClaran, Dawn M. Browning, and Cho-ying Huang

Chapter 13. Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in the Southern Andean Region of Chile and Argentina \ Thomas T. Veblen

Chapter 14. Repeat Photography Challenges Received Wisdom on Land Degradation in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands \ Jan Nyssen, Mitiku Haile, R. Neil Munro, Jean Poesen, A. T. Dick Grove, and Jozef Deckers

Chapter 15. Cattle, Repeat Photography, and Changing Vegetation of the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, Australia \ Darrell Lewis

Chapter 16. People, Elephants, and Habitat Change in Amboseli National Park, Kenya: A Century of Change Detected by Repeat Photography \ David Western

Chapter 17. Repeat Photography and Low-Elevation Fire Responses in the Southwestern United States \ Raymond M. Turner, Robert H. Webb, Todd C. Esque, and Garry F. Rogers

 

PART V. Cultural Applications

Chapter 18. Written on the Surface of the Soil: Northwest Highland Crofting Landscapes of Scotland during the Twentieth Century \ Richard F. Rohde

Chapter 19. Photography and Rephotography in the Cairngorms, Scotland, UK \ Peter R. Moore

Chapter 20. Learning Landscape Change in Honduras: Repeat Photography and Discovery \ J.O. Joby Bass

Chapter 21. Using Rephotography to Find Historic Trails and Campsites in the Southwestern United States \ Tom Jonas

Chapter 22. Shadows of Prehistory: Persistence and Change at Nordenskiöld's Mesa Verde Archaeological Sites, Southwestern Colorado, USA \ William G. Howard, Douglas J. Hamilton, and Kathleen L. Howard

Chapter 23. The Future of Repeat Photography \ Robert H. Webb

 

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