A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California
A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California

Author: William J. Ferlatte

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0520319540

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California
A Flora of the Trinity Alps of Northern California

Author: William J. Ferlatte

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-05-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0520363183

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California
Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California

Author: Gary Nakamura

Publisher: UCANR Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781879906457

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"This guide provides description and photographs of 149 rare or endangered plants found in 10 counties in Northern California. Each description is accompanied by a photo of the mature plant (where available), a photo of the plant in its native habitat, a line art illustration of the plant showing diagnostic features, and a map showing the quadrangles where the plant has been found."--NHBS Encironment Bookstore.

A Natural History of California
A Natural History of California

Author: Allan A. Schoenherr

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 0520290372

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In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California—a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California focuses on each distinctive region, addressing its climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals. The second edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about modern human and animal interaction, and a new epilogue on the impacts of climate change.

The Wild Orchids of California
The Wild Orchids of California

Author: Ronald A. Coleman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780801487828

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This profusely illustrated field guide covers the 31 species of orchids that grow wild in California. The first book on California's native orchids, it will be a valuable resource for professionals and hobbyists alike. The Wild Orchids of California is an impressive extension of Ronald A. Coleman's wide fieldwork, literature review, and herbarium research. Written in a clear narrative style, Coleman's species accounts describe the plants and flowers, their habitats, distribution, pollinators, and blooming season.

Flora of North America, North of Mexico
Flora of North America, North of Mexico

Author: Flora of North America Editorial Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 0195310713

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FNA presents for the first time, in one published reference source, information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.

Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii
Ecology of Biological Invasions of North America and Hawaii

Author: Harold A. Mooney

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1461249880

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The diversity of the earth's climates superimposed upon a complex configuration of physical features has provided the conditions for the evolution of a remarkable array of living things which are linked together into complex ecosystems. The kinds of organisms comprising the ecosystems of the world, and the nature of their interactions, have constantly changed through time due to coevolutionary interactions along with the effects of a continually changing physical environ ment. In recent evolutionary time there has been a dramatic and ever-accelerating rate of change in the configuration of these ecosystems because of the increasing influence of human beings. These changes range from subtle modifications caused by anthropogenically induced alterations in atmospheric properties to the total destruction of ecosystems. Many of these modifications have provided the fuel, food, and fiber which have allowed the expansion of human populations. Unfortunately, there have been many unanticipated changes which accompanied these modifications which have had effects detrimental to human welfare in cluding substantial changes in water and air quality. For example, the use of high-sulfur coal to produce energy in parts of North America is altering the properties of freshwater lakes and forests because of acidification.

Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America
Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America

Author: Earl B. Alexander

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2007-03-22

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 019516508X

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This book is about geology, soils, and plant communities in serpentine landscapes of western North America. Aspects of the interaction of geology and soils reveal a fascinating symbiosis relating the structure, composition, and distribution of plant communities. The plants that survive are a unique group. There are some entire genera or even families of plants that are common throughout California that are poorly represented on serpentine, while other genera are more diverse on serpentine than on other soils. Serpentine rocks have dramatic effects on the vegetation that grows on them. Many common plants cannot grow on serpentine soils, leaving distinctive suites of plants to occupy serpentine habitats. The floristic diversity associated with serpentine soils formed above ultramafic rocks is surprising considering that these soils are toxic to many plants. Serpentine barrens of California often look like moonscapes but here we find numerous species of plants of low biomass that produce a richness of species rarely found in the world.

The Trinity Alps Companion
The Trinity Alps Companion

Author: Wayne F. Moss

Publisher: Ecopress

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Whether you seek mountaintops, solitude, or golden trout, The Trinity Alps have it all! Wayne Moss' forty years of experience in the Alps covers every mountain, lake, creek, and trail in this magnificent wilderness. State-of-the-art cartography will help you visualize and navigate the landscape. Trails, peaks, lakes, and many other features are identified. The Trinity ALps Companion will help you enjoy all that this spectacular wilderness has to offer with special chapters on camping, fishing, and wilderness running.