Author: Lloyd L. LoopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A Bibliography of South Florida Botany
Author: Lloyd L. LoopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Flora of Florida: Dicotyledons, Cabombaceae through Geraniaceae
Author: Richard P. WunderlinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813060668
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First of eight proposed volumes on the more than 3,800 vascular plants known to occur growing wild in the state.
Natural Resources of Southern Florida
Author: Roland McMillan HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Trees of South Florida: The natural environments and their succession
Author: Frank Cooper CraigheadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Aims to aid those who find pleasure in learning new facts about their natural surroundings through reading about or visiting out-of-the-way places, many of which can be found in South Florida.
André Michaux in Florida
Author: Walter Kingsley TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813080451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book recreates the eighteenth-century Florida exploration of botanist Andre Michaux, retracing his routes and including in full documentary form all the plants he collected and observed.
Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Author: Nature Conservancy (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Collected Reprints
Author: John Kunkel SmallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Botanical Exploration Southern Africa
Author: Mary GunnPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780869611296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
In Quest of Lost Cacti
Author: John Kunkel SmallSeeking the American Tropics
Author: James A. KushlanPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.