Deserts
- Title
- Deserts / by James A. MacMahon.
- Published by
- New York : Knopf, [1985]
- Author
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Status | FormatText | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberQH104.5.W4 M33 1985 | Item locationOff-site |
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 638 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.
- Summary
- Surveys the deserts of the American West and describes the various American species of desert plants and animals.
- Series statement
- The Audubon Society nature guides
- Uniform title
- Audubon Society nature guides.
- Subject
- Desert plants
- Desert animals
- Desert ecology
- Natural history
- Desert plants > West (U.S.) > Identification
- Desert animals > West (U.S.) > Identification
- Desert ecology > West (U.S.) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Natural history > West (U.S.) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Handbooks and manuals
- United States, West
- Field guides
- Genre/Form
- Field guides.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Contents
- PART I: DESERTS: How to use this guide -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Great Basin Desert -- The Colorado Plateau Semidesert --The Mojave Desert -- The Sonoran Desert -- The Chihuahuan Desert -- Some special vegetation types common to all deserts -- Aspects of the biology of desert organisms -- How to use the color plates -- PART TWO: COLOR PLATES: Deserts -- Wildflowers -- Mushrooms -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Fishes -- Trees, shrubs, cacti, and grasses -- Insects and spiders -- Butterflies and moths -- Mammals -- Birds -- PART THREE: SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS: Wildflowers and mushrooms -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Fishes -- Trees, shrubs, cacti, and grasses -- Insects and spiders -- Butterflies and moths -- Mammals -- Birds -- PART IV: APPENDICES: Glossary.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-619) and index.