Author: F. G. Hochberg
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Third California Islands Symposium
Author: F. G. Hochberg
Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Proceedings of the Sixth California Islands Symposium, Ventura, California, December 1-3, 2003
Author: Dave Garcelon
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Natural History of the Islands of California
Author: Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520239180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd Edition
Author: Michael Barbour
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
The Fourth California Islands Symposium
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Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Publisher:
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Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium
Author: David R. Browne
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The Island Chumash
Author: Douglas J. Kennett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520243021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Kennett explores trends in demography, dietary expansion, economic intensification, and increasing sociopolitical sophistication evident in the archaeological record. By combining empirical findings based on new archaeological and paleoclimatic work and a thorough synthesis of earlier studies, Kennett argues that the social and political complexity evident among the island Chumash historically was ultimately a product of individual responses to demographic expansion, human impact on marine habitats, and periods of rapid climatic change."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520243021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Kennett explores trends in demography, dietary expansion, economic intensification, and increasing sociopolitical sophistication evident in the archaeological record. By combining empirical findings based on new archaeological and paleoclimatic work and a thorough synthesis of earlier studies, Kennett argues that the social and political complexity evident among the island Chumash historically was ultimately a product of individual responses to demographic expansion, human impact on marine habitats, and periods of rapid climatic change."--BOOK JACKET.
Foundations of Chumash Complexity
Author: Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.
Restoring Nature
Author: Lary M. Dilsaver
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233360
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Restoring Nature examines how the National Park Service has sought to reestablish native species and eradicate the exotic flora and fauna from Channel Islands National Park, and explores why the damage happened in the first place.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496233360
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Restoring Nature examines how the National Park Service has sought to reestablish native species and eradicate the exotic flora and fauna from Channel Islands National Park, and explores why the damage happened in the first place.
Final Environmental Impact Statement for Translocation of Southern Sea Otters: without special title
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Category : Animal introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
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Category : Animal introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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