Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa |
Autore | Catarino Luís |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (180 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences |
Soggetto non controllato |
ecotone
fire forest core habitat preference Ngel Nyaki niche partitioning savannah species sorting torus translation vegetation aridification in NW Africa Macaronesian islands distribution patterns West African Monsoon (WAM) vascular flora African potato conservation commercialization cultivation Hypoxidaceae medicinal plant unsustainable harvesting wild harvesting woodland miombo savanna diversity disturbance Baikiaea biogeographic vicariance extinction phylogenomics gene shopping gene capture molecular dating Africa biome RADseq Monechma Justicia phylogeny plant diversity Bia Tano Forest Reserve gap regeneration species composition species diversity wildfires MODIS burnt area product WWF ecoregions land cover Miombo woodlands biodiversity conservation sub-Saharan Africa flora tropical biodiversity |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557313703321 |
Catarino Luís
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Chuckwalla land [[electronic resource] ] : the riddle of California's desert / / David Rains Wallace |
Autore | Wallace David Rains <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina | 578.75409794 |
Soggetto topico |
Desert biology - California
Deserts - California |
Soggetto non controllato |
american southwest
arid biome biosphere botany cacti california conservation death valley desert animals desert plants desert earth sciences ecology ecosystem environment environmentalism extreme heat geology kelso dunes landscape life sciences natural history naturalist nature nonfiction paleobiology red rock canyon science wasteland zoology |
ISBN |
1-283-27779-4
9786613277794 0-520-94866-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Bushes and Lizards -- 1. A Sphinx in Arcady -- 2. The Country of Dried Skin -- 3. A Cactus Heresy -- 4. The Creator's Dumping Ground -- 5. An Evolutionary Backwater -- 6. Anti-Darwinian Lacertilians -- 7. Descriptive Confusion -- 8. A Murderous Brood -- 9. Hopeful Monsters -- 10. An Old Earth-Feature -- 11. A Climatic Accident -- 12. An Evolutionary Frontier -- 13. A Neo-Darwinian Galapagos -- 14. Mexican Geneses -- 15. Desert Relicts -- 16. Madro-Tertiary Attitudes -- 17. A Friendly Land -- 18. Furry Paleontologists -- 19. Dawn Horses and Dinosaurs -- 20. Axelrod Antagonistes -- 21. The Midday Sun -- 22. Lacertilian Ambiguities -- 23. Xerothermic Invasions -- 24. Sand Swimmers -- 25. Axelrod Ascendant -- 26. An Evolutionary Museum -- 27. The Riddle of the Palms -- 28. Bushes and Camels -- 29. Axelrod Askew -- 30. Paradigms Postponed -- 31. The Falcon and the Shrikes -- Epilogue. The Sphinx's Lair -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781494003321 |
Wallace David Rains <1945->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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