Relicts of a Beautiful Sea : Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World /

Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Norment, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Toads.
Salamanders.
Desert ecology.
Conservation biology.
Climatology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ichthyology & Herpetology.
NATURE > Animals > Fish.
Biologie de la conservation > Grand Bassin.
Écologie des deserts > Grand Bassin.
Crapauds > Grand Bassin.
Salamandres > Grand Bassin.
Conservation biology > Great Basin.
Desert ecology > Great Basin.
Toads > Great Basin.
Salamanders > Great Basin.
United States > Great Basin.
Grand Bassin > Climat.
Great Basin > Climate.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Collecting the dead
  • A cultivation of slowness : the Inyo Mountains slender salamander (Batrachoseps campi)
  • Surviving an onslaught : the Owens pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosus)
  • Some fish : the Salt Creek and Cottonball Marsh pupfishes (Cyprinodon salinus salinus and Cyprinodon salinus milleri)
  • A fragile existence : the Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)
  • Swimming from the ruins : the Ash Meadows and Warm Springs Amargosa pupfishes (Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes and Cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis)
  • Exile and loneliness : the black toad (Bufo exsul)
  • The view from telescope peak
  • Epilogue : hold steady.

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