LEADER 03899nam 2200721 a 450 001 9911090612703321 005 20251117062757.0 010 $a9786612359378 010 $a9781282359376 010 $a1282359371 010 $a9780520934337 010 $a0520934334 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520934337 035 $a(CKB)1000000000767224 035 $a(EBL)470871 035 $a(OCoLC)536166385 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000290731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10249875 035 $a(PQKB)10528026 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055809 035 $a(OCoLC)502012659 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31091 035 $a(DE-B1597)520351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520934337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470871 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676170 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235937 035 $a(Perlego)552511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470871 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000767224 100 $a20071003d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCalifornia's fading wildflowers $elost legacy and biological invasions /$fRichard A. Minnich 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780520253537 311 08$a0520253531 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index. 327 $aThe golden state -- Pre-Hispanic herbaceous vegetation -- Invasion of Franciscan annuals, grazing and California pasture in the nineteenth century -- A century for bromes and the fading of California wildflowers -- Lessons from the Rose Parade -- App.1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names -- App.2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation -- App.3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California -- App.4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise. 330 $aEarly Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California. 606 $aBiological invasions$zCalifornia 606 $aPlant invasions$zCalifornia 606 $aWild flowers$zCalifornia 615 0$aBiological invasions 615 0$aPlant invasions 615 0$aWild flowers 676 $a582.1309794 700 $aMinnich$b Richard A$01942731 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911090612703321 996 $aCalifornia's fading wildflowers$94696503 997 $aUNINA