The Quiet Extinction : Stories of North America's Rare and Threatened Plants /

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"The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent's natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rogers, Kara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Plant conservation.
Endemic plants.
Endangered plants.
NATURE > General.
Plantes en voie de disparition > Amerique du Nord.
Plantes > Conservation > Amerique du Nord.
Plantes endemiques > Amerique du Nord.
Endangered plants > North America.
Plant conservation > North America.
Endemic plants > North America.
North America.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Whitebark pine
  • Fraser fir
  • Plants and their animals
  • Lost in the wild
  • Mead's milkweed
  • Florida torreya
  • Fickeisen plains cactus and acuña cactus
  • Penstemon
  • Golden paintbrush
  • Hidden value
  • The northern plants
  • Afterword.

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