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61. The New Desert Reader | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2006-05-05)
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A great sampler across time, styles, interests, emphases
How perceptions of the great American deserts have changed over time |
62. The Sonoran Desert by Day and Night (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Dot Barlowe | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(2003-01-17)
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63. Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals (Adaptations of Desert Organisms) by Giovanni Costa | |
Hardcover: 198
Pages
(1995-08-25)
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64. Desert Wildflowers of North America by Ronald J. Taylor | |
Paperback: 349
Pages
(1998-05)
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Beautiful, informative book |
65. Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Desert Environment by Kuwait) Kuwait-Japan Symposium on "Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Desert Environment" (1996 : Kuwait | |
Hardcover: 306
Pages
(1996-10-01)
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66. Plants of the Desert (The Incredible World of Plants) by Andreu Llamas, Luis Rizo | |
Library Binding: 32
Pages
(1996-01)
list price: US$18.55 Isbn: 0791034666 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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67. Arid Dune Ecosystems: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert (Ecological Studies) by Siegmar-W. Breckle | |
Hardcover: 475
Pages
(2008-07-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sand dune dynamics plays a key role in many arid deserts. This volume provides a synthesis of a specific sand dune ecosystem, the Nizzana site in the Negev Desert. Describing its climate and geophysical/geochemical properties of soils, geological history, flora and fauna, and past/present land-use patterns, it elucidates ecological and geomorphological processes and their interrelations, based on long-term monitoring, in situ experiments and satellite imagery. Particular attention is drawn to the impact of the topsoil biological crust in controlling water availability at local/regional scales. The interdisciplinary approach adopted in this case study offers a good example of a highly complex and dynamic system, which could easily be applied to other sandy ecosystems. This is a valuable source of information for soil ecologists and microbiologists, conservation biologists, desert ecologists and geographers, geomorphologists, soil scientists and climatologists, lecturers, policy makers and others interested in deserts and desertification. |
68. High Desert Yards and Gardens by Lynn Ellen Doxon | |
Paperback: 230
Pages
(1999-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description As in her popular column in the Albuquerque Journal, horticulturist Lynn Doxon answers common questions and provides practical and specific advice for both beginning and experienced gardeners. Tips for beginning new yards and maintaining established ones, including information on watering, fertilization, pruning, insect control, and converting older lawns to xeriscapes, are presented in this thorough and detailed guide. Customer Reviews (2)
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69. Sonoran Desert Spring by John Alcock | |
Paperback: 134
Pages
(1994-02-01)
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Evolutionary logic "Footsteps" is the significant term in this book.Not ATVs, aircraft, nor other vehicular means, but walking quietly is the method to employ in behold ing the desert.Alcock provides examples of his techniques in researching various aspects of life.Surprising wasps in their rituals requires finesse and timing.Seemingly, he moves directly from office to landscape - one of his marking tools being a bottle of Liquid Paper.With this "paint" he can identify individual insects - male wasps and butterflies seeking mates.This technique lapses with rattlesnakes and coyotes, however. More easily identified subjects are the palo verde trees and giant saguaro cactuses.His palo verde trees are numbered [in his memory], but the saguaros are often elusive.Not because these ancient, giant cacti are mobile, but because his urban neighbours see fit to use them for target practice.Many of his jaunts confront him with spent shells, pock-marked rocks and shattered giant cactus plants.Desert soil pockets, often the home of slumbering spade-foot toads are riven with vehicle tracks.Their passage disturbs the dormant toads who believe the noise presages water-delivering thunderstorms.Awakening, they emerge in the belief the water is signalling the time for courtship and reproduction.The disappointment is greater than simply mating deferred.It may mean the toad has expended its resources.It will dry out and expire. In describing how the details of desert life is seen today, Alcock muses on the roots of life's processes.Why do the Tarantula Wasp and the Great Purple Hairstreak butterfly [which displays nothing visible that's purple] evolve parallel mating rituals?How can some species successfully deal with the spines of the cholla cactus when a human stuck with the spines must endure a full day's pain?Why do some bees fly in solitude while others are flock in swarms?Alcock examines these and similar questions with sound evolutionary logic.He stresses that simple or apparent solutions often require re-examination.Horned lizards only take a few ants from a nest entrance.Are they "prudent predators" saving prey for later exploitation?Alcock reflects on possibilities to arrive at a solution Darwin would have admired.As do we.[stephen a.haines - Ottawa, Canada]
Conversational devil-may-care style involving, enlightening |
70. Desert Wildflowers by Desert Botanical Garden | |
Paperback: 112
Pages
(1999-06)
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Vivid beauty! |
71. Desert Gardens: A Photographic Tour of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | |
Hardcover: 176
Pages
(2010-03-01)
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72. Desert Animals (Animals in Their Habitats) by Francine Galko | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(2002-09)
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73. Deserts: An Activity Guide for Ages 6-9 by Nancy F. Castaldo | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2004-04-01)
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Great for unit study on deserts. |
74. Desert Discoveries by Ginger Wadsworth | |
Paperback: 30
Pages
(1997-03)
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Good nature book with pictures
Great children's book! |
75. Peoples of the Desert (Low, Robert, Peoples and Their Environments.) by Robert Low | |
Hardcover: 24
Pages
(1997-08)
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Disappointing |
76. The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert, 2nd ed by Michael Evenari, Leslie Shanan, Naphtali Tadmor | |
Hardcover: 456
Pages
(1982-11-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom. Customer Reviews (1)
The water masters! |
77. Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Site (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series) | |
Hardcover: 492
Pages
(2006-07-20)
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78. Surviving Death Valley: Desert Adaptation (Fact Finders) by Dell, Pamela | |
Library Binding: 32
Pages
(2008-01-01)
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79. What Lives in the Desert? (Animal Habitats) by Oona Gaarder-Juntti | |
Library Binding: 24
Pages
(2008-07)
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80. Desert Dogs: Coyotes, Foxes & Wolves by Jonathan Hanson; Roseann Beggy Hanson; Ariz.) Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson | |
Paperback: 24
Pages
(1996-06-01)
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Sweet, but too short |
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