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Changing plant life of La Frontera : observations on vegetation in the United States/Mexico borderlands

Title
Changing plant life of La Frontera : observations on vegetation in the United States/Mexico borderlands / edited by Grady L. Webster and Conrad J. Bahre.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2001], ©2001.

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  • Webster, Grady L. (Grady Linder), 1927-2005.
  • Bahre, Conrad J.
Description
xi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 29 cm
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-247) and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Frederick Gehlbach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reconnaissance of the Flora and Vegetation of La Frontera / Grady L. Webster -- 3. Climate of La Frontera / M. L. Shelton -- 4. Deep History and Biogeography of La Frontera / Thomas R. Van Devender -- 5. Historic Vegetation Change in La Frontera West of the Rio Grande / Conrad J. Bahre and Charles F. Hutchinson -- 6. Climate and Herbivore in Structuring the Vegetation of the Malpai Borderlands / Charles G. Curtin and James H. Brown -- 7. Forest Fire Histories of the Sky Islands of La Frontera / Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan and J. Mark Kaib -- 8. Fire and Elevational Zonation of Chaparral and Conifer Forests in the Peninsular Ranges of La Frontera / Richard A. Minnich -- 9. Land Use, Climate, Soils, and Forest Structure in the Animas Mountains and the Sierra de los Ajos / Guy R. McPherson and Jose Villanueva-Diaz --
  • 10. Grazing Impacts on Mountain Meadows of the Peninsular Ranges in La Frontera / Joaquin Sosa-Ramirez and Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino -- 11. Human-Induced Vegetation Changes in the Tamaulipan Scrub of La Frontera / Timothy E. Fulbright -- 12. Oaks of La Frontera / Richard Spellenberg -- 13. Coastal Strand Vegetation of La Frontera / Ileana Espejel, Patricia Moreno-Casasola and Michael G. Barbour -- App. Taxonomic Overview of the Oaks of La Frontera.
ISBN
0826322395
LCCN
00010451
OCLC
  • 44593981
  • ocm44593981
  • SCSB-4211389
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