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California's fading wildflowers : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich



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Autore: Minnich Richard A Visualizza persona
Titolo: California's fading wildflowers : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
Disciplina: 582.1309794
Soggetto topico: Biological invasions - California
Plant invasions - California
Wild flowers - California
Soggetto non controllato: biodiversity
botanicals
california history
california wildflowers
conservation
dramatic transformation
ecological theory
ecology
fire management
groundbreaking book
historical analysis
invasive plants
landscapes
minnich
native california plants
san diego
spanish explorer
wildfire
wildflower prairies
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.
Nota di contenuto: The 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Early 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.
Titolo autorizzato: California's fading wildflowers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35937-1
9786612359378
0-520-93433-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814879903321
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