Desert ecology : an introduction to life in the arid southwest

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The work Desert ecology : an introduction to life in the arid southwest represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Desert ecology : an introduction to life in the arid southwest

Title remainder

an introduction to life in the arid southwest

Statement of responsibility

John Sowell

Creator

• Sowell, John, 1958-

Subject

• Desert ecology -- North America
• North America
• USA -- Südweststaaten
• Desert ecology
• Wüstentiere
• Ökologie
• Wüstenpflanzen

Language

eng

Summary

"Explore the life cycle of the yucca and creosote bush, trace the wanderings of the gila monster and tenebrionid beetle in the rhythms of the desert at night. Unlike books that merely identify which plants and animals live in the desert, this book explores how these organisms live where they do. Sowell explains in terms that nonspecialists will understand and physiologic and behavioral adaptations that enable plants and animals, even humans, to survive and persist in such inhospitable places as the Intermountain, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. This book is for the curious, for all who enter the "wasteland" on foot or in their imaginations."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

577.54/097

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

QH102

LC item number

.S69 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography