The view from Bald Hill :thirty years in an Arizona grassland
- 作者: Bock, Carl E.,
- 其他作者: Bock, Jane H.
- 出版: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2000.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxiv, 197 pages) :illustrations, maps.
- 叢書名: Organisms and environments ;1
- 標題: NATURE Ecosystems & Habitats -- Plains & Prairies. , Grassland ecology Arizona -- Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary. , Arizona , Environmental Conservation & Protection. , NATURE , NATURE Environmental Conservation & Protection. , Grassland ecology. , Grassland ecology , Arizona Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary. , Ecosystems & HabitatsPlains & Prairies. , Electronic books. , Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch Sanctuary (Ariz.)
- ISBN: 0520221834 , 9780520221833
- ISBN: 0520221834 , 9780520221833 , 0520221842 , 9780520221840
- 試查全文@TNUA:
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-191). COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ONE: THE GRASSLANDS OF CORONADO -- TWO: ON BEING THE CONTROL -- THREE: WAITING FOR RAIN -- FOUR: FENCELINES -- FIVE: HERPS -- SIX: ISLANDS OF FIRE -- SEVEN: OAKS, ACORNS, AND RUGGED GROUPS -- EIGHT: LITTLE BROWN BIRDS -- NINE: FRAGMENTS -- TEN: THE NEST BOX EXPERIMENT -- ELEVEN: PLAINS LOVEGRASS -- TWELVE: COTTON RATS AND REAL DOGS -- THIRTEEN: ALIENS -- FOURTEEN: THE WORLD IS FULL OF LIFE -- APPENDIX: SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- NOTES -- LITERATURE CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
- 摘要: In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty.
- 電子資源: https://dbs.tnua.edu.tw/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=66368
- 系統號: 005297159
- 資料類型: 電子書
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"This book brings together nearly every aspect of grassland research in the American Southwest and is written to appeal to both academics and the general public. It refutes conventional myths about some causes of grassland change, tests hypotheses in restoration ecology, and offers new perspectives on the recovery of ecosystems free from livestock grazing. It is a book that every naturalist or ecologist should read."--Conrad Bahre, author of A Legacy of Change "I expected another nature book. What I found was, to my surprise, a love story. Carl and Jane Bock visited the Research Ranch in the early 1970s and fell in love--with the Sonoita Plains, the plants and animals there, and the people who called it home. Like all good love stories, this one is full of passion and joy, excitement and disappointment, and sadness and humor. . . . With their successful blend of storytelling and scientific reporting, the Bocks share the most intimate details of their love affair and make the reader curious to learn more about this little-known land."--H. Ronald Pulliam, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia "Jane and Carl Bock write precisely as well as lovingly of the dynamics of the distinctive grasslands near the U.S./Mexico border in Arizona. They also bring 25 years of first-rate science to bear on their topic. Their seasoned view of ecological and perceptual changes in this community are unique and will go a long way toward healing and restoring the remaining fragments of this biome in southeastern Arizona."--Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Cultures of Habitat
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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