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Grass : In Search of Human Habitat /
Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Organisms and environments ; |v 11 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Promethean Legacy -- 2. Out of the Forest -- 3. Science and Faith -- 4. Playing God -- 5. Pleasing to the Eye -- 6. Where the Short Grass Grows -- 7. Turf -- 8. Grass and Grazers: An Ecological Primer -- 9. Bison Plains and Prairie Dogs -- 10. Taming of the West -- 11. Production Science Comes to the Range -- 12. The Last Pariah -- 13. The Trouble with Livestock -- 14. Subsidizing John Wayne -- 15. Collateral Damage -- 16. Cowboy -- 17. Resurrection -- 18. Pleistocene Park -- 19. Diversity -- 20. Long Road Home. | |
| 520 | |a Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past two centuries. He introduces an intriguing cast of characters-wildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologists-to illuminate a wide range of related top. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Grasslands. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00946817 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Grassland ecology. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00946801 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Grasses. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00946724 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE |x Life Sciences |x Biological Diversity. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Prairies. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écologie des prairies. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Grasslands. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Grassland ecology. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Ecology and Evolution Supplement | ||