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1 online resource (359 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; SECTION I: Fundamentals; Chapter 1: The Land; 1.1 San Andreas Fault; 1.2 Transverse Ranges; 1.3 Peninsular Ranges; Chapter 2: The Climate; 2.1 Global Winds; 2.3 Spring and Summer; 2.4 Topography and Temperature; 2.5.2 Intermediate Valleys; 2.5.4 Mountains; Chapter 3: Exploration, Collections and the Museum Tradition; 3.1 Early Ocean Voyages to the West Coast; 3.2 Settling California-Portolá and Anza; 3.3 Naturalists of the Early 1800s; 3.4 Colonial America; 3.5 Exploring the West; 3.6 Mexican Boundary Survey |
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3.7 Railroad Surveys3.8 John Xántus and Fort Tejon; 3.9 Institutions; 3.10 Collections; Chapter 4: The Three Pillars of Natural History; 4.1 Systematics: Taxonomy, Phylogenetics, and Classification; 4.2 Distribution; 4.3 Survival; 4.3.2 Reproduction; 4.3.3 Predator Prey Relationships; SECTION II: Settings; Chapter 5: Vegetation Past and Present; 5.1 Cenozoic Vegetation and Glaciation; 5.1.2 Tropical Savannah; 5.1.4 Glaciation; 5.1.5 Sea Levels; 5.2.1 California Floristic Province; 5.2.2 Great Basin Province; Chapter 6: Plant-Vertebrate Communities; 6.1 Coastal Strand |
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6.2 Coastal Salt Marshes and Estuaries6.3 Coastal Sage Scrub; 6.3.2 Coastal Sage Scrub Vertebrates; 6.4.1 Chaparral Vertebrates; 6.5 California Evergreen Woodland; 6.6 Montane Coniferous Forest; 6.6.1 Montane Forest Vertebrates; 6.7 Subalpine Coniferous Forest; 6.7.1 Subalpine Vertebrates; 6.9 Great Basin Desert Scrubland; 6.10 Mojave Desert; 6.10.1 Plant Associations; 6.10.1.1 Creosote Bush Scrub; 6.10.1.2 Blackbush Scrub; 6.10.1.3 Joshua Tree Woodland; 6.10.1.4 Dunes; 6.10.1.6 Alkali Sinks; 6.10.1.7 Piñon-Juniper Woodland; 6.11 Sonora-Colorado Desert; 6.11.1 Sandy Planes and Dunes |
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6.12 Desert Vertebrates6.13 Riparian Habitats; 6.13.1 Riparian Vertebrates; 6.13.1.2 Amphibians and Reptiles; SECTION III: Vertebrates; Chapter 7: Amphibians; 7.1 The Move to Land; 7.2 Features of Modern Amphibians-The Lissamphibia; 7.2.1 Reproduction; 7.2.1.2 Frogs; 7.2.1.3 Fertilization; 7.3 Caudata-Salamanders; 7.3.1 Ambystomatidae-Mole Salamanders; 7.3.3 Plethodontidae-Lungless Salamanders; 7.4 Anura-Frogs; 7.4.1 Pelobatidae-Spadefoots; 7.4.3 Hylidae-Treefrogs; 7.4.4 Ranidae-True Frogs; 7.4.5 Pipidae-Tongueless Frogs; Chapter 8: Turtles and an Overview of the Amniotes; 8.1 Amniotes |
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8.2 Turtles8.3 Emydidae-Pond and Box Turtles; 8.4 Testudinidae-Tortoises; 8.5 Other Land Turtles; Chapter 9: Lepdiosaurs-Squamates and Tuatara; 9.1 Squamates-Amphisbaenians, Lizards, and Snakes; 9.1.1 Squamate Senses; 9.1.2 Ectothermy, Foraging, and Feeding; 9.1.3 Squamate Defenses; 9.1.4 Squamate Reproduction; 9.2 Lizards of Southern California; 9.3 Iguania; 9.3.1 Iguanidae-Iguanas and Allies; 9.3.2 Phrynosomatidae-Sand Lizards, Horned Lizards, and Allies; 9.3.3 Crotaphytidae-Collared Lizards and Leopard Lizards; 9.4 Gekkota; 9.4.1 Eublepharidae-Banded Geckos and Allies; 9.5 Scincomorpha |
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9.5.2 Scincidae-Skinks |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351020046 |
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1351020048 |
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