A Natural History of the Mojave Desert

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence R. Walker is a professor of plant ecology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of nine previous books, including The Biology of Disturbed Habitats . Frederick H. Landau is a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Walker and Landau have twenty-five years of scientific collaboration that includes projects in Nevada, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico. They both enjoy hiking and back-road adventures throughout the Mojave Desert. Klappentext Explores how a combination of complex geology! varied geography! and changing climate has given rise to intriguing flora and faunain the Mojave Desert - including almost 3!000 plant species and about 380 terrestrial vertebrate animal species. Of these! one quarter of the plants and one sixth of the animals are endemic.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick H Landau, Frederick H. Landau, Lawrence R Walker, Lawrence R. Walker, Lawrence R./ Landau Walker
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2018
• EAN: 9780816532629
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3262-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology