Author: Rogers McVaugh
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: Rogers McVaugh
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 810

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Author: Rogers McVaugh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962073335
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Rogers McVaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Richard Spellenberg
Publisher: UNAM
ISBN: 9789683649744
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: James Stubbendieck
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496217756
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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This comprehensive guide of legumes of the Great Plains includes an in-depth description of 114 species with illustrations and distribution maps. It includes more than one hundred similar species with a description of how each differs from the main species.

Author: Richard Stephen Felger
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816552398
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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From the Pinacate lava fields and expansive dunes to the shores of the Gulf of California, the Gran Desierto is one of the hottest and driest places in the Western Hemisphere. Yet this region in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico embraces a remarkable number of habitats with a fascinating and surprisingly rich flora. This is the heart of the Sonoran Desert, still in a largely primordial state, in juxtaposition with the ravished wetlands of the once great Río Colorado. Flora of the Gran Desierto is the culmination of more than twenty-five years of research in this magnificent desert and delta by botanist Richard Felger. This comprehensive floristic study of more than 565 species of vascular plants features original diagnostic descriptions and innovative identification keys to the families, genera, and species. Particular attention has been devoted to taxa that are poorly known. Even weeds and their histories are treated in detail. Hundreds of illustrations by such eminent botanical artists as Lucretia Brezeale Hamilton, Matt Johnson, and Bobbi Angell will aid in the identification of plants. Common names of plants are given in English, Spanish, and O'odham. While emphasizing scientific accuracy, the book is written in an accessible style. Felger's observations and knowledge of plant ecology, geographic distribution, evolution, ethnobotany, plant variation and special adaptations, and the history of the region provides botanists, naturalists, ecologists, conservationists, and anyone else celebrating the desert with readable, interesting, and important information. With two of Mexico's newest biosphere reserves—the Pinacate and the Upper Gulf of California—this region is a keystone for desert conservation efforts. Its location linking vast preserves to the north makes this book especially useful for anyone interested in borderland studies and the Sonoran Desert. Flora of the Gran Desierto represents a most creative, definitive, and enthusiastic treatment of Sonoran Desert plant life and is highly relevant to ecological restoration in deserts and wetlands in arid places worldwide.

Author: Tucson Richard Stephen Felger Executive Director Drylands Institute, AZ
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199761272
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The definitive treatment of the trees and tree-like plants of Sonora, a remarkably diverse and biologically important region, ranging from some of the driest and hottest areas in North America to cool, temperate woodlands and the northernmost tropical regions in the New World. The majority of the trees in this semi-arid region are at their northern limits in the Americas in this state and many range to South America. Thus, this book will be important to biologists in regions well outside of the area covered. Felger is the recognized expert in the area, and the book contains an enormous body of information nowhere else obtainable. The introductory chapter contains biotic and climatic information and an analysis of the geographical distributions of the trees of a state that is poorly known biologically. Two hundred eighty-five species of native and naturalized trees are covered, featuring extensive identification keys and illustrations, most of them newly produced for this book. The descriptive species accounts include common names, indigenous names, and synonyms, detailed botanical descriptions, ecological and geographic data, geographic ranges, natural history, economic uses, and, in many cases, other information such as horticultural uses and conservation status.

Author: Matthew T. Lavin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: John H. Wiersema
Publisher:
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Category : Legumes
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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