Biotic communities : southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico / David E. Brown, editor.

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Brown, David E. (David Earl), 1938-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585131996
9780585131993

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biotic communities.DDC classification:

574.5/247/0979 20

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QH104.5.S6 B56 1994eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Tundras -- pt. 2. Forests and woodlands -- pt. 3. Scrublands -- pt. 4. Grasslands -- pt. 5. Desertlands -- pt. 6. Wetlands.

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Summary: Biotic Communities catalogs and defines by biome, or biotic community, the region centered on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. This ambitious guide is an essential companion for anyone working in natural resources management and ecological research, as well as nonspecialists looking for solid information about a particular southwestern locale. Biotic Communities is arranged by climatic formation with a short chapter for each biome describing climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Subsequent chapters contain careful descriptions of zonal subdivisions.

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"Originally published as Biotic communities of the American Southwest--United States and Mexico, in Desert plants, vol. 4, nos. 1-4, 1982, by the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-301) and index.

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Biotic Communities catalogs and defines by biome, or biotic community, the region centered on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. This ambitious guide is an essential companion for anyone working in natural resources management and ecological research, as well as nonspecialists looking for solid information about a particular southwestern locale. Biotic Communities is arranged by climatic formation with a short chapter for each biome describing climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Subsequent chapters contain careful descriptions of zonal subdivisions.

pt. 1. Tundras -- pt. 2. Forests and woodlands -- pt. 3. Scrublands -- pt. 4. Grasslands -- pt. 5. Desertlands -- pt. 6. Wetlands.

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