California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers...
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Author: Richard A. Minnich
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Language: English
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California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions by Minnich, Richard A.

California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

€203,82

California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

€203,82
Author: Richard A. Minnich
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources--from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory--to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.

Author: Richard A. Minnich
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/18/2008
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780520253537


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/04/2008 pg. 17

About the Author
Richard A. Minnich is Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of The Biogeography of Fire in the San Bernadino Mountains of California: A Historical Survey and Land of Chamise and Pines: Historical Descriptions of Northern Baja California (both from UC Press).

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