A Natural History of CaliforniaIn this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state. |
Contents
Californias Natural Regions | 1 |
Basic Ecology | 18 |
Basic Geology | 48 |
Sierra Nevada | 69 |
Mountaintops | 167 |
Pacific Northwest Mountains | 228 |
Coast Ranges | 261 |
Cismontane Southern California | 313 |
Californias Deserts | 406 |
The Great Central Valley | 516 |
Inland Waters | 553 |
The Coastline | 625 |
Epilogue | 723 |
Selected References | 725 |
Index | 735 |
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