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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12098820.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "1. The desert environment -- 2. Plant adaptations to aridity, heat, and salinity -- 3. Plant life histories : of birds and bees -- 4. Animal adaptations : thermoregulation -- 5. Animal adaptations : osmoregulation -- 6. Animal life histories -- 7. Desert ecosystems -- 8. Islands in the sky -- 9. Humans in the desert.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 193 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Desert ecology.".
- catalog identifier "087480678X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Desert ecology.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,".
- catalog relation "Desert ecology.".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "577.54/097 21".
- catalog subject "Desert ecology North America.".
- catalog subject "QH102 .S69 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The desert environment -- 2. Plant adaptations to aridity, heat, and salinity -- 3. Plant life histories : of birds and bees -- 4. Animal adaptations : thermoregulation -- 5. Animal adaptations : osmoregulation -- 6. Animal life histories -- 7. Desert ecosystems -- 8. Islands in the sky -- 9. Humans in the desert.".
- catalog title "Desert ecology : an introduction to life in the arid southwest / John Sowell.".
- catalog type "text".