| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

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Transport Processes in Nature: Propagation of Ecological Influences Through Environmental Space. By William A. Reiners and Kenneth L. Driese. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii+302 pp. Illustrations, references, index. Cloth $120.00, paper $60.00.
Transport processes are the means by which an event or condition in one location influences other locations. Although this is a simple concept, scientists often have failed to take transport processes and the patterns that influence them into account. There are a number of reasons for this conceptual shortfall, as Reiners and Driese point out in Chapter 1. Although the importance of transport processes has been recognized for a long time, dealing with spatial influences was difficult. So scientists often ignored them, and failed to communicate spatial concepts to others. The advent of geographic information systems, global positioning systems, remotely-sensed imagery, spatial statistics, and spatially explicit models now provide tools to measure scale and spatial influences, but concepts that integrate these measures with others gathered by scientists are only now being developed. For this reason, a book on spatial influences is timely and novel.	1
The authors describe two main objectives for the book: to introduce a conceptual framework for the study of the propagation of ecological influences, and to provide examples of models that describe influence propagation, organized by particular vectors including colluvial (gravitational) transport, wind, fire, water, animals, and others.	. . .

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