Author: Ira Waddell ClokeyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Flora of the Charleston Mountains Clark County, Nevada
Author: Ira Waddell ClokeyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada
Author: Robert M. LloydPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Author: Robert H. RobichauxPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816552460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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
A Guide to the Threatened and Endangered Vascular Plants of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Author: James S. HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Threatened and Endangered Plants of Nevada
Author: Hugh Nelson MozingoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered plants
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Las Vegas Wash & Tributaries (Tropicana and Flamingo Washes), Clark County, Nevada
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flamingo Wash (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Flora and Physiognomy of the Cottonwood Mountains, Death Valley National Monument, California
Author: Paul M. PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Clark County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan
Author: Clark County Flood Control Master Plan
Author: Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd Edition
Author: Michael BarbourPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520249550
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
"This completely new edition of Terrestrial Vegetation of California clearly documents the extraordinary complexity and richness of the plant communities and of the state and the forces that shape them. This volume is a storehouse of information of value to anyone concerned with meeting the challenge of understanding, managing or conserving these unique plant communities under the growing threats of climate change, biological invasions and development."—Harold Mooney, Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University "The plants of California are under threat like never before. Traditional pressures of development and invasive species have been joined by a newly-recognized threat: human-caused climate change. It is essential that we thoroughly understand current plant community dynamics in order to have a hope of conserving them. This book represents an important, well-timed advance in knowledge of the vegetation of this diverse state and is an essential resource for professionals, students, and the general public alike."—Brent Mishler, Director of the University & Jepson Herbaria and Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley