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A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum) by Steven J Phillips; Patricia Wentworth Comus; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson, Ariz) is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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The Sonoran Desert is one of the most wildly diverse and fascinating regions in the world. Covering southeastern California, the southern half of Arizona, most of Baja California, and much of the state of Sonora, Mexico, this vast area is home to an amazing variety of plants and animals. Its terrain varies dramatically, from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows. A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America. The authorsexperts in many fieldsbegin with a general look at the region's geology, paleoecology, climate, human ecology, and biodiversity. The book then looks in depth at hundreds of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, native fishes, and invertebrates that live in the northern part of the Sonoran Desert. Throughout, the text is supplemented with anecdotes, essays, color and black-and-white photographs, maps, diagrams, and 450 finely-rendered drawings. This comprehensive, accessible natural history is written for nonscientists and will surely become an in

Who reads A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)?

Author

Steven J Phillips; Patricia Wentworth Comus; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson, Ariz)

Publisher

Tucson: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press ; Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520220294

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Reference, Western