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Chuckwalla land [[electronic resource] ] : the riddle of California's desert / / David Rains Wallace
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->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
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The Built Environment in a Changing Climate : Interactions, Challenges and Perspectives
The Built Environment in a Changing Climate : Interactions, Challenges and Perspectives
Autore Ulpiani Giulia
Pubbl/distr/stampa Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 electronic resource (234 p.)
Soggetto topico Research & information: general
Soggetto non controllato outdoor space
thermal environment
radiation environment
wind environment
heat-related mortality
built environment
urban resilience
extreme heat
climate change
urban heat island
heat stress from outside
indoor environments
tropics
multi-level office buildings
coastal cities
Mediterranean climate
urban heat island intensity
sample year
climate change adaptation
barriers
focus group discussion
Tehran
structural equation modeling
urban management
near-zero energy buildings
future scenarios
energy efficiency
adaptive comfort
long-term performance
urban heat
Australia
UHI effect
mitigation
bushfire smoke
indoor air quality
filtration
building envelope
energy
future weather data
building energy performance
thermal comfort
statistical downscaling of climate models
dynamical downscaling of climate models
urban modelling
cities
buildings
decarbonization
urbanisation
climate
densification
population
temperature
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Built Environment in a Changing Climate
Record Nr. UNINA-9910557350103321
Ulpiani Giulia  
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
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