TY  - GEN
T1  - The Desert Grassland
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A2  - Van Devender, Thomas R.
A2  - McClaran, Mitchel P., 1956-
LA  - English
PP  - Tucson
PB  - University of Arizona Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1377545813
AB  - The mixed grass and shrub vegetation known to scientists as desert grassland is common to the basins and valleys that skirt the mountain ranges throughout southwestern North America, extending from Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas down through thirteen Mexican states. Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished, and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland. They also document how the influence of humans - from Amerindians to contemporary ranchers, public land managers, and real estate developers - has changed the relative abundance of woody and herbaceous species and how the introduction of new plants and domesticated animals to the area has also affected biodiversity. The book concludes with a review of the attempts, both failed and successful, to reestablish plants in desert grasslands affected by overgrazing, drought, and farm abandonment.
CN  - QH104.5.S6 D47 1995
SN  - 9780816553204
SN  - 0816553203
SN  - 9780816515806
SN  - 9780816518234
SN  - 0816515808
KW  - Grassland ecology : Mexico.
KW  - Grassland ecology : Southwestern States.
KW  - Desert ecology : Mexico.
KW  - Desert ecology : Southwestern States.
KW  - Grasslands : Mexico.
KW  - Grasslands : Southwestern States.
KW  - Deserts : Mexico.
KW  - Deserts : Southwestern States.
KW  - Ecology.
KW  - Grasslands.
KW  - Deserts.
KW  - Mexico.
KW  - Southwestern United States.
KW  - Écologie des prairies : Mexique.
KW  - Écologie des prairies : États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
KW  - Écologie des déserts : Mexique.
KW  - Écologie des déserts : États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
KW  - Prairies : Mexique.
KW  - Prairies : États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
KW  - Déserts : Mexique.
KW  - Déserts : États-Unis (Sud-Ouest)
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - Grasslands
KW  - Grassland ecology
KW  - Deserts
KW  - Desert ecology
KW  - United States : Southwestern States
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Écologie des prairies : États-Unis (sud-ouest)
KW  - Écologie des deserts : Mexique.
KW  - Écologie des deserts : États-Unis (sud-ouest)
KW  - Prairies : États-Unis (sud-ouest)
KW  - Deserts : Mexique.
KW  - Deserts : États-Unis.
KW  - desert.
KW  - desert : herbage : Etats-Unis : sud-ouest.
KW  - desert : herbage : Mexique.
ER  -