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| View Larger Image | Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America: Geology, Soils, and Vegetation | Hardcoverby Earl B. Alexander (Author), Robert G. Coleman (Author), Todd Keeler-Wolfe (Author), Susan P. Harrison (Author)
| List Price: | $150.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 528 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 02, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 905,272th |
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Product Description
Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them. Modern geoecology especially concentrates on showing how geology and soils affect the structure, composition, and distribution of plant communities in a certain research area. This book applies the principles of geoecology to Western North America, and to a specific kind of rock, the fascinating serpentine belts that run along the continental margins of the West Coast from Alaska to Baja. The authors come from different disciplines: Alexander is a soil scientist, Coleman a geologist, Harrison a biological researcher, and Keeler-Wolfe a vegetation ecologist.It begins with an overview of the geology of this rock and this region, covering mineralogy, petrology, and stratigraphy of West Coast serpentine. It will continue with serpentine soils and their development and distribution, and serpentine effects on plants and vegetation and animals. The serpentine geoecology of the different regions of Western North America, concentrating on California, will conclude the study. So, this academic book should appeal to plant ecologists, soil scientists, researchers in geoecology, and students in advanced courses in soil science. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)
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The Enigma of Serpentine Endemism by James Safranek (Steinbeck Country)  4 Stars
October 07, 2008
Kruckeberg's CALIFORNIA SERPENTINES was my first intro to CA's kooky serpentine habitats, especially those I've witnessed in my own region at Table Mountain, Coyote Ridge and New Idria. For an extended treatment of the soils, geology and domains of western North America's unique serpentine geoecology, I can recommend this work to plant ecologists, biogeographers, and soil scientists.
If you like checkerspot butterflies you'll appreciate the importance of protecting serpentine terrane for this species, a topic which is admirably covered here by one of the co-authors.
For more on their biology, see Ehrlich's ON THE WINGS OF CHECKERSPOTS.
Get a copy of SERPENTINE GEOECOLOGY for around $7 before they're gone.
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