The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation

Title
  1. The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation / edited by Thomas R. Van Devender.
Published by
  1. Tucson : The University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Van Devender, Thomas R.
Description
  1. x, 388 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
Subject
  1. Desert tortoise > Sonoran Desert
Contents
  1. Natural history of the Sonoran tortoise in Arizona: life in a rock pile / Thomas R. Van Devender -- Cenozoic environments and the evolution of the gopher tortoises (genus Gopherus) / Thomas R. Van Devender -- Fossil history and evolution of the gopher tortoises (genus Gopherus) / Robert D. McCord -- Genetic differences among geographic races of the desert tortoise / Trip Lamb and Ann M. McLuckie -- The desert tortoise in Mexico: distribution, ecology, and conservation / R. Bruce Bury ... [et al.] -- Population ecology of the Sonoran Desert tortoise in Arizona / Roy C. Averill-Murray, A. Peter Woodman, and Jeffrey M. Howland -- Activity and behavior of the Sonoran Desert tortoise in Arizona / Roy C. Averill-Murray ... [et al.] -- Grasses, mallows, desert vine, and more: diet of the desert tortoise in Arizona and Sonora / Thomas R. Van Devender ... [et al.] -- Nutritional ecology of the desert tortoise in the Mohave and Sonoran deserts / Olav T. Oftedal -- Are free-ranging Sonoran Desert tortoises healthy? / Vanessa M. Dickinson ... [et al.] -- Growth of desert tortoises: implications for conservation and management / David J. Germano ... [et al.] -- Care and diet of captive Sonoran Desert tortoises / James L. Jarchow ... [et al.] -- Fire ecology of the Sonoran Desert tortoise / Todd C. Esque ... [et al.] -- Conservation and protection of the desert tortoise in Arizona / Jeffrey M. Howland and James C. Rorabaugh -- When desert tortoises talk, Indians listen: traditional ecological knowledge of a Sonoran Desert reptile / Gary Paul Nabhan.
Call number
  1. JFE 02-17537
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation / edited by Thomas R. Van Devender.
Imprint
  1. Tucson : The University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2002.
Series
  1. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Van Devender, Thomas R.
LCCN
  1. 2001007091
ISBN
  1. 0816521913 (cloth : alk. paper)
Sudoc no.
  1. UA 5.2:D 37/11 azdocs
Research call number
  1. JFE 02-17537
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