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Author : White Mountain Research Station (University of California, Los Angeles). Symposium
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
ISBN : UCSD:31822005687041
Author : Clarence A. Hall Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520319509
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 1991. 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
Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520295117
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.
Author : Marith C. Reheis,Robert Hershler,David M. Miller
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724393
Papers in this title were selected from presentations from an April 2005 workshop sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Surface Dynamics Program, the U.S. Geological Survey National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, and the Smithsonian Institution. Papers are divided into two broad topics of the configuration, areal extent, and temporal development of the chain of interconnected lakes that emptied into Death Valley during periods of the Pleistocene, and the late Cenozoic history of drainage integration in the lower Colorado River region. Papers are occasionally illustrated in both color and black-and-white; the publication contains no index.
Author : Bruce M Pavlik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520940784
This highly readable, spectacularly illustrated compendium is an ecological journey into a wondrous land of extremes. The California Deserts explores the remarkable diversity of life in this harsh yet fragile quarter of the Golden State. In a rich narrative, it illuminates how that diversity, created by drought and heat, has evolved with climate change since the Ice Ages. Along the way, we find there is much to learn from each desert species-- whether it is a cactus, pupfish, tortoise, or bighorn sheep--about adaptation to a warming, arid world. The book tells of human adaptation as well, and is underscored by a deep appreciation for the intimate knowledge acquired by native people during their 12,000-year desert experience. In this sense, the book is a journey of rediscovery, as it reflects on the ways that knowledge has been reclaimed and amplified by new discoveries. The book also takes the measure of the ecological condition of these deserts today, presenting issues of conservation, management, and restoration. With its many sidebars, photographs, and featured topics, The California Deserts provides a unique introduction to places of remarkable and often unexpected beauty.
Author : Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520278806
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Author : Clarence A. Hall,Barbara Widawski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015053930486
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034076919
Author : J. Ehlers,P.L. Gibbard
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080474076
This book is the second of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared. The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Included with the publication is a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated. The last deglaciation is also shown in 500 year time-steps. The digital maps in this volume cover the USA and Canada and include Greenland and Hawaii. Both overview maps and more detailed maps at a scale 1: 1,000,000 are provided. Also available:Part I: Europe, ISBN 0-444-51462-7Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, ISBN 0-444-51593-3
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015061383223
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924084855745
Author : Eldridge M. Moores,Doris Sloan,Dorothy L. Stout
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813723389
Author : Dave Wilson,Robert J. Reginato,Kenneth J. Hollett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Evapotranspiration
ISBN : UCR:31210025350826
Author : Michael J. Lannoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520235924
Documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species.
Author : A.R. Gillespie,S.C. Porter,B.F. Atwater
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080474090
This book reviews advances in understanding of the past ca. two million years of Earth history - the Quaternary Period - in the United States. It begins with sections on ice and water - as glaciers, permafrost, oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers. Six chapters are devoted to the high-latitude Pleistocene ice sheets, to mountain glaciations of the western United States, and to permafrost studies. Other chapters discuss ice-age lakes, caves, sea-level fluctuations, and riverine landscapes. With a chapter on landscape evolution models, the book turns to essays on geologic processes. Two chapters discuss soils and their responses to climate, and wind-blown sediments. Two more describe volcanoes and earthquakes, and the use of Quaternary geology to understand the hazards they pose. The next part of the book is on plants and animals. Five chapters consider the Quaternary history of vegetation in the United States. Other chapters treat forcing functions and vegetation response at different spatial and temporal scales, the role of fire as a catalyst of vegetation change during rapid climate shifts, and the use of tree rings in inferring age and past hydroclimatic conditions. Three chapters address vertebrate paleontology and the extinctions of large mammals at the end of the last glaciation, beetle assemblages and the inferences they permit about past conditions, and the peopling of North America. A final chapter addresses the numerical modeling of Quaternary climates, and the role paleoclimatic studies and climatic modeling has in predicting future response of the Earth's climate system to the changes we have wrought.
