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- catalog abstract "Botanist Homer L. Shantz took photographs of the Kenyan landscape in the early 1920s as part of his effort to document the natural plant cover of Africa. He returned there with B.L. Turner in the late 1950s to repeat the photographs. In 1990, Raymond Turner traveled to Kenya under the auspices of the National Geographic Society in order to match the photographs made by Shantz and B.L. Turner and to show the changes that have occurred over the decades since Shantz's initial journey. Turner's comparative photos and research into the botanical record dramatically reflect the encroachment of woody plants in arid areas and the increasing human impact in more humid locales. Turner's discussions of the photographs and the conclusions he draws provide an important reference for ecologists, geographers, botanists, and other researchers attempting similar studies. By documenting vegetation change in a region broadly similar climatically to North America's subtropical deserts and grasslands but different in its wildlife and its human culture, the book shows that the endpoints of landscape status are similar despite the vastly different histories of these two regions of the world.".
- catalog contributor b10666869.
- catalog contributor b10666870.
- catalog contributor b10666871.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Botanist Homer L. Shantz took photographs of the Kenyan landscape in the early 1920s as part of his effort to document the natural plant cover of Africa. He returned there with B.L. Turner in the late 1950s to repeat the photographs. In 1990, Raymond Turner traveled to Kenya under the auspices of the National Geographic Society in order to match the photographs made by Shantz and B.L. Turner and to show the changes that have occurred over the decades since Shantz's initial journey. Turner's comparative photos and research into the botanical record dramatically reflect the encroachment of woody plants in arid areas and the increasing human impact in more humid locales.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Turner's discussions of the photographs and the conclusions he draws provide an important reference for ecologists, geographers, botanists, and other researchers attempting similar studies. By documenting vegetation change in a region broadly similar climatically to North America's subtropical deserts and grasslands but different in its wildlife and its human culture, the book shows that the endpoints of landscape status are similar despite the vastly different histories of these two regions of the world.".
- catalog extent "x, 177 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816518718 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press,".
- catalog spatial "Kenya".
- catalog subject "581.7/096762 21".
- catalog subject "Landscape changes Kenya History Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Plant ecology Kenya History Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "QK402.K4 T87 1998".
- catalog subject "Vegetation and climate Kenya History Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Vegetation and climate Kenya History Pictorial.".
- catalog subject "Vegetation dynamics Kenya History Pictorial works.".
- catalog title "Kenya's changing landscape / Raymond M. Turner, H. Awala Ochungʾ, and Jeanne B. Turner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".