No Species Is an Island : Bats, Cacti, and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert /

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"The book describes for a general natural history audience the unexpected scientific discoveries Fleming's research team made during an intensive 11-year study of four species of Sonoran Desert columnar cacti and their pollinators"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fleming, Theodore H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pollination by animals.
Ecology.
Cactus.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Deserts.
Pollinisation par les animaux > Sonora, Desert de.
Cactus > Sonora, Desert de.
Ecology > Sonoran Desert.
Pollination by animals > Sonoran Desert.
Cactus > Sonoran Desert.
North America > Sonoran Desert.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Lesson Number 1: The Strange Sex Life of Cardon; Lesson Number 2: A Pollination Mix-Up Is Not Always a Bad Thing; Lesson Number 3: A Rare Plant-Pollinator Collaboration; Lesson Number 4: What's an Insect-Eating Bat Like You Doing in a Cardon Flower?; Lesson Number 5: Some Pollinators Run Marathons Most Days of Their Lives; Lesson Number 6: Tortilla Flats Is Only One Stop in a Long Journey for Many Animals; Lesson Number 7: No Species Is an Island; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Further Reading; Index.

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