The Natural History of Baja California
Author : Miguel del Barco
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Miguel del Barco
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : Miguel del Barco González
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Jon Paul Rebman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780916251185
The Baja California Plant Field Guide is a manual to native and naturalized plants of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. It is a useful guide for the entire Sonoran Desert and for Southern California, as over 50% of the species covered also occur in these regions. Over 715 different plants in 111 plant families are identified (most in both English and Spanish), with both scientific and common names and detailed descriptions. Many species are illustrated with color photographs. Descriptions entail plant habit and height; stem, leaf, flower, and fruit morphology; range; elevation; pollination biology; ethnobotanical uses; and discriminating comparisons with close relatives. This book is intended for everyone from the interested novice to the professional botanist.
Author : L. Lee Grismer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520925203
The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer is not only the foremost authority on the amphibians and reptiles of Baja California, but also an outstanding photographer. He has produced the most comprehensive work on the herpetofauna of the peninsula and its islands ever published. With its stunning color images, detailed accounts of many little-known species, and descriptions of the region's diverse environment, this is the definitive guide to the amphibians and reptiles of a fascinating and remote region. The culmination of Grismer's quarter century of fieldwork on the Baja peninsula and his exploration of more than one hundred of its islands in the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortés, this book gives information on the identification, distribution, natural history, and taxonomy of each species of amphibian and reptile found there. Preliminary accounts of the life history of many of the salamanders, frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, and snakes are reported here for the first time, and several species that were almost unknown to science are illustrated in full color. The book also contains new data on species distribution and on the effect of the isolated landscape of the peninsula and its islands on the evolutionary process. Much of the information gathered here is presented in biogeographical overviews that consider the extremely varied environments of Baja California in both a contemporary and a historical framework. An original and important contribution to science, this book will generate further research for years to come as it becomes a benchmark reference for both professionals and amateurs.
Author : Miguel del Barco
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
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Author : Ira Loren Wiggins
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : Steven J. Phillips
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520219809
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816519026
Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran desert, a land of volcanic cliffs, glistening beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In this book, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, enriching his account with the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future--rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous and so little known.
Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780932653475
The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula, its colorful past and booming present, in this fascinating reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories make it a "must-have" for Bajaphiles as well as armchair travelers.