Mountain Islands and Desert Seas
Mountain Islands and Desert Seas
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Mountains rise like islands from deserts and grasslands along the US-Mexican border. The stunningly varied borderlands offer a laboratory for studying historical trends and ecological cycles. This work describes the stability and changes in the Borderlands' climate, landforms, and natural communities and in its distinctive plants and vertebrates.
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Mountain Islands and Desert Seas by Frederick R Gehlbach
Mountains rise like islands from deserts and grasslands along the U.S.-Mexican border. The stunningly varied borderlands offer a laboratory for studying historical trends and ecological cycles, as well as a refuge in which to experience natural history firsthand. In this engaging personal narrative, biologist Fred Gehlbach describes the stability and changes of the past century in the Borderlands' climate, landforms, and natural communities and in its distinctive plants and vertebrates. Historical sketches, maps, and striking photographs richly amplify the text, and a preface updates developments in the region since the book's original publication in 1981.
A first-rate natural history of the entire US.-Mexican border area.... [The reader] may profit greatly from the author's readable style and his sense of what is environmentally appropriate. - Sierra ""... a book to be savored and pondered.... a great service to a very special land."" - John Tveten, Houston Chronicle ""... deeply rewarding reading for those even mildly interested in the environment and the region from the south of the Rio Grande to California's Imperial Valley."" - Arizona Highways
FREDERICK R. GEHLBACH was a professor of biology and environmental studies at Baylor University from 1963 to 1995 and currently works at Baylor as a research professor of biology. He has had more than seventy scientific and popular articles and books published.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780890965665 |
| ISBN 10 | 0890965668 |
| Title | Mountain Islands and Desert Seas |
| Author | Frederick R Gehlbach |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Texas A & M University Press |
| Year published | 1993-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |