California's Fading Wildflowers : Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

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Offers a historical analysis of the transformation of California's wildflower prairies. This book challenges the thinking on the subject, evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled...

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Autor principal: Minnich, Richard A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wild flowers.
Plant invasions.
Biological invasions.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
NATURE > Plants > Flowers.
Fleurs sauvages > Californie.
Plantes > Envahissement > Californie.
Invasions biologiques > Californie.
Wild flowers > California.
Plant invasions > California.
Biological invasions > California.
California.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; 1. The Golden State; 2. Pre-Hispanic Herbaceous Vegetation; 3. Invasion of Franciscan Annuals, Grazing, and California Pasture in the Nineteenth Century; 4. A Century of Bromes and the Fading of California Wildflowers; 5. Lessons from the Rose Parade; Notes; Appendices; References; Index.

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