Desert ecology
Desert ecology: an introduction to life in the arid southwest John Sowell
Publisher: Salt Lake City [Utah] : University of Utah Press, c2001.
ISBN: 087480678X
DDC: 577.54097
LCC: QH102
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"Explore the life cycle of the yucca and creosote bush, trace the
wanderings of the gila monster and tenebrionid beetle in the rhythms
of the desert at night." "Unlike books that merely identify which
plants and animals live in the desert, Desert Ecology explores how
these organisms live where they do. Sowell explains in terms that
nonspecialists will understand and physiologic and behavioral
adaptations that enable plants and animals, even humans, to survive
and persist in such inhospitable places as the Intermountain, Mojave,
Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. "This book is for the curious, "
says the author - for all who enter the "wasteland" on foot or in
their imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index.
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