Author: Robert Ornduff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520237049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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California's remarkably diverse plants range in size from the stately coast redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts. This is the only concise overview of the state's unique flora, its plant communities, and the environmental factors that shape them. 156 illustrations.
Author: Philip W. Rundel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520241991
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Rundel introduces readers to the plant communities of the Southern California coastal areas and foothills, including color photos of 250 species and additional color habitat photos.
Author: Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520936426
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Carnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plants—species that are unique to particular locales. California boasts an abundance of endemic plants precisely because it also boasts the richest geologic diversity of any place in North America, perhaps in the world. In lively prose, Arthur Kruckeberg gives a geologic travelogue of California's unusual soils and land forms and their associated plants—including serpentines, carbonate rocks, salt marshes, salt flats, and vernal pools—demonstrating along the way how geology shapes plant life. Adding a fascinating chapter to the story of California's remarkable biodiversity, this accessible book also draws our attention to the pressing need for conservation of the state's many rare and fascinating plants and habitats. *148 outstanding, accurate photographs, more than 100 incolor, illustrate California's diverse flora *Covers a wide range of locations including the Channel Islands, the Central Valley, wetlands, bristlecone pine forests, and bogs and fens *Provides selected trip itineraries for viewing the state's geobotanical wonders *Includes information on human influences on the California landscape from the early Spanish explores through the gold rush and to the present
Author: Robert Ornduff
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Category : Plant ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Glenn Keator
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259246
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This volume enables readers to identify California's native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and descriptions of seventy major families prominent in California's natural environment.
Author: John David Stuart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520221093
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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"Finally a guide to the woody plants of wildland California! The easy-to-follow vegetative keys, revealing drawings, crisp color photos, and handy range maps combine to make this a beautiful, reader-friendly resource to the novice and the expert alike. Each species has a page of text, including notes on habitat, morphology, and economic importance."--Michael Barbour, editor of California's Changing Landscapes "I love this book. It is warmly welcome as a guide for California's avid public, a public that includes natural history lovers, conservationists, consultants, agencies, and public and private land managers. It is useful, useable, packed with accurate information, and cannot help but assist us in the difficult job of preserving our natural heritage."--Jake Sigg, President, California Native Plant Society
Author: James Lightner
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Category : Endemic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Philip Wilson Rundel
Publisher: University of California Press - University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236165
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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CNHG: This is an introduction to the plant communities of the Southern California coastal areas and foothills, including color photos of 250 species and additional color habitat photos.
Author: Ronald D. Quinn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520219731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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This book will introduce general readers to the plants and animals associated with chaparral and review for biologists and land managers its natural history, ecology, and management challenges.
Author: Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780520233713
Category : Plant-soil relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Having spent time in the field with Professor Kruckeberg, I can attest to his uncanny ability to locate a rare plant not by looking for the plant itself, but by having an almost empathetic sense of its preferred habitat. Now he shares his decades of natural history experience by taking us on a virtual tour of California's incredibly diverse flora, bringing life to the equally diverse geology underneath. For those who want to go beyond knowing plant communities to understanding them, Art Kruckeberg's latest book is essential."--Toby Bradshaw, Washington Research Foundation Professor of Basic Biological Science, University of Washington "Best known for his comprehensive lifetime's work on serpentine plants, Arthur Kruckeberg here addresses how all of what he lovingly calls "kooky soils"--serpentine, gabbro, carbonates, volcanics, vernal pools and others--have shaped California's outstandingly rich flora. In an eminently readable and enthusiastic style, he helps us to see the patterns of interconnectedness among rocks, landforms, soils, vegetation, and plant species. All California naturalists, from the amateur to the overspecialized professional scientist, will come away enriched by his remarkable perspective."--Susan Harrison, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis
