Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd Edition

Name: Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd Edition
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ISBN: 9780520249554

ISBN-10: 0520249550

ISBN-13: 9780520249554

Edition: 3rd 2007

Authors: Michael Barbour, Todd Keeler-Wolf, Allan A. Schoenherr

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This thoroughly revised, entirely rewritten edition of what is the essential reference on California's diverse and ever-changing vegetation now brings readers the most authoritative, state-of-the-art view of California's plant ecosystems available. Integrating decades of research, leading community ecologists and field botanists describe and classify California's vegetation types, identify environmental factors that determine the distribution of vegetation types, analyze the role of disturbance regimes in vegetation dynamics, chronicle change due to human activities, identify conservation issues, describe restoration strategies, and prioritize directions for new research. Several new…

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List price: $100.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 730
Size: 0.87" wide x 1.10" long x 0.16" tall
Weight: 4.334
Language: English




The history of vegetation classification and mapping in California




Climate, paleoclimate, and paleovegetation




California soils and examples of ultramafic vegetation




Nonnative plants of California




Estuarine wetlands




Beach and dune




Northern coastal scrub and coastal prairie




Sage scrub




The California Channel Islands




Forests of northwestern California




Closed-cone pine and cypress forests




Oak woodlands and forests




Chaparral




Valley grassland




Vernal pools




Riparian vegetation of the Great Valley




Montane and subalpine vegetation of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges




Southern California conifer forests




Alpine vegetation




Transmontane coniferous vegetation




Sagebrush steppe




Mojave Desert scrub vegetation




Colorado desert vegetation