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A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Forrest Shreve
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804701631
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Ira Loren Wiggins
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Botany
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : 920 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Botany
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Desert plants
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Robert H. Robichaux
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816552460
The Sonoran Desert is a distinctive biotic region that fascinates scientist, students, and nature lovers. This book offers an accessible introduction to Sonoran Desert ecology. Eight original essays by Sonoran Desert specialists provide an overview of the practice of ecology at landscape, community, and organismal scales. The essays explore the rich diversity of plant life in the Sonoran Desert and the ecological patterns and processes that underlie it. They also reveal the history and scientific legacy of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, which has conducted research on the Sonoran Desert since 1903. Coverage includes diversity and affinities of the flora, physical environments and vegetation, landscape complexity and ecological diversity, population dynamics of annual plants, form and function of cacti, and the relationship between plants and the animals that use them as feeding and breeding resources. The text also examines the ecological consequences of modern agricultural development, as well as the impact on the modern biota of 40,000 years of change in climate, vegetation, megafauna, and ancient cultures. This comprehensive book covers a broad range of spatial and temporal scales to highlight the diversity of research being pursued in the Sonoran Desert. It is both a testament to these ongoing studies and an authoritative introduction to the diverse plant life in the region. Contents 1. Diversity and Affinities of the Flora of the Sonoran Floristic Province, Steven P. McLaughlin and Janice E. Bowers 2. Vegetation and Habitat Diversity at the Southern Edge of the Sonoran Desert, Alberto Bórquez, Angelina Martínez Yrízar, Richard S. Felger, and David Yetman 3. The Sonoran Desert: Landscape Complexity and Ecological Diversity, Joseph R. McAuliffe 4. Population Ecology of Sonoran Desert Annual Plants, D. Lawrence Venable and Catherine E. Pake 5. Form and Function of Cacti, Park S. Nobel and Michael E. Loik 6. Ecological Genetics of Cactophilic Drosophila, William J. Etges, W. R. Johnson, G. A. Duncan, G. Huckins, and W. B. Heed 7. Ecological Consequences of Agricultural Development in a Sonoran Desert Valley, Laura L. Jackson and Patricia W. Comus 8. Deep History and a Wilder West, Paul S. Martin
Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Botany
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Author : Forrest Shreve
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1951
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