Biotic communities: southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City University of Utah Press c1994
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Item Description:"Originally published as Biotic communities of the American Southwest--United States and Mexico, in Desert plants, vol. 4, nos. 1-4, 1982, by the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum"--T.p. verso. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-301) and index
Biotic Communities catalogs and defines by biome, or biotic community, the region centered on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. This ambitious guide is an essential companion for anyone working in natural resources management and ecological research, as well as nonspecialists looking for solid information about a particular southwestern locale. Biotic Communities is arranged by climatic formation with a short chapter for each biome describing climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Subsequent chapters contain careful descriptions of zonal subdivisions
pt. 1. Tundras -- pt. 2. Forests and woodlands -- pt. 3. Scrublands -- pt. 4. Grasslands -- pt. 5. Desertlands -- pt. 6. Wetlands
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (342 p.)
ISBN:0585131996
0874804590
9780585131993
9780874804591

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