The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan: A Century of Science and Nature at the University of Michigan Biological Station

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Northern Michigan is undergoing unprecedented changes in land use, climate, resource extraction, and species distributions. For the last hundred years, the University of Michigan Biological Station has monitored these environmental transformations. Stretching 10,000 acres along Burt and Douglas Lakes within the northern Lower Peninsula and 3,200 acres on Sugar Island near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the station has played host to just about 10,000 students and a steady stream of top scientists within the fields of biology, ecology, geology, archeology, and climatology.

The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan collects essays by a few of these scientists, who lead readers on virtual field trips exploring the history of people and science on the station itself, the relations of indigenous people to the land, the geophysical history of the region, characteristics of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, key groups of organisms and their relations to local habitats, and perspectives on essential environmental challenges of as of late and their effects on the region. Accompanying the chapters are color illustrations and photographs that bring the station’s pristine setting to life.

Like the station itself, the book provides a pretty good background for better appreciating the relationships among living and nonliving parts of northern Michigan, for any individual fascinated about exploring the region’s forests, fields, and wetlands; wading or paddling down its rivers; or swimming or floating across its lakes.

Knute J. Nadelhoffer is Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology on the University of Michigan.

Alan J. Hogg, Jr., teaches science writing on the University of Michigan as a faculty member of the Sweetland Writing Center. His Ph.D. research explored the effects of ozone and nitrogen oxides on University of Michigan Biological Station forests.

Brian A. Hazlett is Professor Emeritus of Zoology on the University of Michigan.

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