자료유형 | E-Book |
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개인저자 | Wallace, David Rains, 1945- |
서명/저자사항 | Chuckwalla land[electronic resource] :the riddle of California's desert /David Rains Wallace. |
발행사항 | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xxii, 255 p.) |
ISBN | 9780520948662 (electronic bk.) 0520948661 (electronic bk.) |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | A sphinx in Arcady -- The country of dried skin -- A cactus heresy -- The creator's dumping ground -- An evolutionary backwater -- Anti-Darwinian Lacertilians -- Descriptive confusion -- A murderous brood -- Hopeful monsters -- An Old Earth-feature -- A climatic accident -- An evolutionary frontier -- A neo-Darwinian Galapagos -- Mexican geneses -- Desert relicts -- Madro-tertiary attitudes -- A friendly land -- Furry paleontologists -- Dawn horses and dinosaurs -- Axelrod antagonists -- The midday sun -- Lacertilian ambiguities -- Xerothermic invasions -- Sand swimmers -- Axelrod ascendant -- An evolutionary museum -- The riddle of the palms -- Bushes and camels -- Axelrod askew -- Paradigms postponed -- The falcon and the shrikes. |
요약 | Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, the author illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scientists and scholars appear throughout these pages, including maverick paleobiologist Daniel Axelrod, botanist Ledyard Stebbins, and naturalists Edmund Jaeger and Joseph Wood Krutch. Weaving together ecology, geology, natural history, and mythology in his characteristically eloquent voice, the author reveals that there is more to this starkly beautiful landscape than meets the eye. |
일반주제명 | Desert biology -- California. Deserts -- California. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity. |
언어 | 영어 |
기타형태 저록 | Print version:Wallace, David Rains, 1945-Chuckwalla land.Berkeley : University of California Press, c20119780520256163 |
대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=380296 |
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