California's Fading Wildflowers : Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions.

California's Fading Wildflowers : Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions.

Offers a historical analysis of the transformation of California's wildflower prairies. This book challenges the thinking on the subject, evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minnich, Richard A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Biological invasions > California.
Plant invasions > California.
Wild flowers > California.
NATURE > Plants > Flowers.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Biological invasions
Plant invasions
Wild flowers
California
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; 1. The Golden State; 2. Pre-Hispanic Herbaceous Vegetation; 3. Invasion of Franciscan Annuals, Grazing, and California Pasture in the Nineteenth Century; 4. A Century of Bromes and the Fading of California Wildflowers; 5. Lessons from the Rose Parade; Notes; Appendices; References; Index.

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