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Sonoran Desert Plants
Author | : Raymond M. Turner,Janice Emily Bowers,Tony L Brugess |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780816547937 |
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The Sonoran Desert, a fragile ecosystem, is under ever-increasing pressure from a burgeoning human population. This ecological atlas of the region's plants, a greatly enlarged and full revised version of the original 1972 atlas, will be an invaluable resource for plant ecologists, botanists, geographers, and other scientists, and for all with a serious interest in living with and protecting a unique natural southwestern heritage. An encyclopedia as well as an atlas, this monumental work describes the taxonomy, geographic distribution, and ecology of 339 plants, most of them common and characteristic trees, shrubs, or succulants. Also included is valuable information on natural history and ethnobotanical, commercial, and horticultural uses of these plants. The entry for each species includes a range map, an elevational profile, and a narrative account. The authors also include an extensive bibliography, referring the reader to the latest research and numerous references of historical importance, with a glossary to aid the general reader. Sonoran Desert Plants is a monumental work, unlikely to be superseded in the next generation. As the region continues to attract more people, there will be an increasingly urgent need for basic knowledge of plant species as a guide for creative and sustainable habitation of the area. This book will stand as a landmark resource for many years to come.
Desert Plants
Author | : Catherine A. Welch |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0736843213 |
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Describes desert plants, how desert plants are used, and why these plants need to be protected.
Desert Plants
Author | : Kishan Gopal Ramawat |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2009-12-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642025501 |
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Deserts appear very fascinating during our short visits. However, the lives of plants and animals are very dif?cult under the harsh climatic conditions of high tempe- ture and scant water supply in deserts, sometimes associated with high concent- tions of salt. The editor of this book was born and brought up in the Great Indian Desert, and has spent much of his life studying the growth and metabolism of desert plants. It is very charming on a cool summer evening to sit at the top of a sand dune listening only to blowing air and nothing else. It has been my dream to prepare a volume on desert plants encompassing various aspects of desert plant biology. In this book, I have tried to present functional and useful aspects of the vegetation resources of deserts along with scienti?c input aimed at understanding and impr- ing the utility of these plants. The scant vegetation of deserts supports animal life and provides many useful medicines, timber and fuel wood for humans. Therefore, there are chapters devoted to medicinal plants (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. 13, 14), and fruit plants (Chaps. 17, 20). Desert plants have a unique reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialised metabolism and survival abilities. These plants are dif?cult to propagate and pose many problems to researchers developing biote- nological approaches for their amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).
Structure Function Relations of Warm Desert Plants
Author | : Arthur C. Gibson |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642609794 |
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For centuries biologists have been extremely interested in the structure of desert plants as examples of natural selection to harsh environmental conditions. Indeed, desert plants are frequently used as examples in many biology classes and textbooks to illustrate natural selection, but this has led to an unfortunate litany of errors and misconceptions about desert plant adaptations. This new synthesis focuses on plants of lowland tropical and subtropical arid deserts. Readers will be surprised to discover that many features commonly ascribed to desert plants are rareley observed in the most common species. Instead, the typical structural adaptations of nonsucculent warm desert plants are now viewed as ways to maximize photosynthetic rate.
Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants
Author | : Stanley D. Smith,Russell Monson,Jay E. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642592126 |
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Following a description of the physical and biological characterization of the four North American deserts together with the primary adaptations of plants to environmental stress, the authors go on to present case studies of key species. They provide an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the major patterns of adaptation in desert plants, with one chapter devoted to several important exotic plants that have invaded these deserts. The whole is rounded off with a synthesis of the resource requirements of desert plants and how they may respond to global climate change.
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
Author | : Wendy C. Hodgson |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2015-12 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780816532834 |
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"Written to be easily accessible to general readers, the book is a valuable compendium for anyone interested in the desert's hidden bounty."--Jacket.
Desert Plants
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3981331966 |
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Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants
Author | : Yitzchak Gutterman |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642559747 |
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Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with physiological, morphological and anatomical resemblances, in the various stages of their life cycles. After 40 years of research in hot deserts Yitzchak Gutterman provides a comprehensive treatise of such adaptations and strategies. In doing so he covers the following topics: post-maturation primary seed dormancy, which prevents germination of maturing seeds before the summer; seed dispersal mechanisms with escape or protection strategies; cautious or opportunistic germination strategies; seedling drought tolerance. The day-length is an important factor in regulating flowering as well as the phenotypic plasticity of seed germination which is also affected by maternal factors.