Chuckwalla land : the riddle of California's desert /

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Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, the author illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, David Rains, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Desert biology > California.
Deserts > California.
Biologie désertique > Californie.
Déserts > Californie.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
Desert biology
Deserts
Wüste.
Ökologie.
California
Kalifornien.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A sphinx in Arcady
  • The country of dried skin
  • A cactus heresy
  • The creator's dumping ground
  • An evolutionary backwater
  • Anti-Darwinian Lacertilians
  • Descriptive confusion
  • A murderous brood
  • Hopeful monsters
  • An Old Earth-feature
  • A climatic accident
  • An evolutionary frontier
  • A neo-Darwinian Galapagos
  • Mexican geneses
  • Desert relicts
  • Madro-tertiary attitudes
  • A friendly land
  • Furry paleontologists
  • Dawn horses and dinosaurs
  • Axelrod antagonists
  • The midday sun
  • Lacertilian ambiguities
  • Xerothermic invasions
  • Sand swimmers
  • Axelrod ascendant
  • An evolutionary museum
  • The riddle of the palms
  • Bushes and camels
  • Axelrod askew
  • Paradigms postponed
  • The falcon and the shrikes.

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