The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation
- Title
- The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation / edited by Thomas R. Van Devender.
- Published by
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2002.
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- Description
- x, 388 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
- Subject
- Contents
- 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
- JFE 02-17537
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title
- The Sonoran Desert tortoise : natural history, biology, and conservation / edited by Thomas R. Van Devender.
- Imprint
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, c2002.
- Series
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added author
- Van Devender, Thomas R.
- LCCN
- 2001007091
- ISBN
- 0816521913 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Sudoc no.
- UA 5.2:D 37/11 azdocs
- Research call number
- JFE 02-17537