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Reference handbook on the deserts of North America
- Title
- Reference handbook on the deserts of North America / edited by Gordon L. Bender.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GB612 .R43 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bender, Gordon Lawrence, 1918-
- Description
- xi, 594 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Handbook
- handbooks.
- Handbooks and manuals
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Guides et manuels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction / Gordon L. Bender -- The Great Basin / Don Fowler and David Koch -- The northern Great Basin region / Don McKenzie -- The Mojave Desert / Peter Rowlands, Hyrum Johnson, Eric Ritter, and Albert Endo -- The Sonoran Desert / Frank S. Crosswhite and Carol D. Crosswhite -- The Chihuahuan Desert / Fernando Medellín-Leal -- The Arctic Desert / David M. Hickok, Joseph C. LaBelle, and Robert G. Adler -- Animal adaptations / Neil F. Hadley.
- Plant adaptations / Otto R. Solbrig -- North American desert riparian ecosystems / Robert D. Ohmart and Bertin W. Anderson -- Sand dunes in the North American deserts / Roger S.U. Smith -- Desert varnish / Carleton B. Moore and Christopher Elvidge -- Research areas and facilities / Gordon L. Bender -- Desertification / Gordon L. Bender.
- ISBN
- 0313213070
- 9780313213076
- LCCN
- 80024791
- OCLC
- ocm06863218
- 6863218
- SCSB-38742
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library