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A L Pipkin

The Living Map

Ecology, Place, and the Intelligence of the Earth

A L Pipkin

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English
Red Horizon Press
27 January 2026
Ecological science, the Biosphere; Applied ecology; Environmental science, engineering & technology
At 11.2°N, 76.9°E, a forest persists by constraint, not design.

Myristica dactyloides breathes-a living fossil from the Last Glacial Maximum-while recruitment fails at 0.8% and fire returns every 64 years. The arithmetic is terminal: a population growth rate of 0.987 predicts the final adult's death in the year 2323. This is not metaphor. It is measurement.

THE LIVING MAP records ecological systems stripped of narrative and intention. Terrain functions as selector. Soil retains paleoclimate memory. Fire operates as scalpel. Demographic lag becomes visible only when rates are measured and aligned.

The book follows a quantitative thread-0.008 to 0.42 to 2323-demonstrating how slow biological systems fail when physical limits shift faster than traits can respond. Every number is load-bearing. Remove one and the structure collapses.

This is a diagnostic instrument, not a story. It documents how extinction debt can be dated, how persistence occurs without resilience, and how ecological intelligence emerges as information retained in form.

Read at the speed required to notice constraint.
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Imprint:   Red Horizon Press
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   77g
ISBN:   9798224311958
Pages:   70
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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