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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->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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-9910822291303321 |
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Wallace David Rains <1945->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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