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Relicts of a beautiful sea survival, extinction, and conservation in a desert world

Title
Relicts of a beautiful sea [electronic resource] : survival, extinction, and conservation in a desert world / Christopher J. Norment.
Author
Norment, Christopher.
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

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Description
1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Uniform Title
Relicts of a beautiful sea (Online)
Alternative Title
Relicts of a beautiful sea (Online)
Subject
  • Salamanders > Great Basin
  • Toads > Great Basin
  • Desert ecology > Great Basin
  • Conservation biology > Great Basin
  • Great Basin > Climate
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Collecting the dead -- A cultivation of slowness : the Inyo Mountains slender salamander (batrachoseps campi) -- Surviving an onslaught : the Owens pupfish (cyprinodon radiosus) -- Some fish : the salt creek and cottonball marsh pupfishes (cyprinodon salinus salinus and cyprinodon salinus milleri) -- A fragile existence : the devils hole pupfish (cyprinodon diabolis) -- Swimming from the ruins : the ash meadows and warm springs amargosa pupfishes (cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes and cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis) -- Exile and loneliness : the black toad (bufo exsul) -- The view from telescope peak -- Epilogue : hold steady.
LCCN
2014009210
OCLC
ssj0001289626
Author
Norment, Christopher.
Title
Relicts of a beautiful sea [electronic resource] : survival, extinction, and conservation in a desert world / Christopher J. Norment.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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