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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. A few illustrations, octavo, , pp xiv, 344, pictorial boards, a very good. copy. [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 sourcesfrom 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 theoryto 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…
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California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Richard A. Minnich
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"Much more than a lament for a vanishing landscape, California's Fading Wildflowers is a meticulously researched and compelling revision of the Golden State's ecological history from the pre-colonial era to the present."--Louis S. Warren, editor, American Environmental History
"A wonderful achievement. . . . An incredibly rich synthesis of history, plant geography, and landscape ecology, which Richard Minnich uses to describe a place--coastal and interior California--that within 200 years experienced one of the most complete human-caused landscape transformations in the world."--Michael Barbour, University of California, Davis
"A wonderful achievement. . . . An incredibly rich synthesis of history, plant geography, and landscape ecology, which Richard Minnich uses to describe a place--coastal and interior California--that within 200 years experienced one of the most complete human-caused landscape transformations in the world."--Michael Barbour, University of California, Davis
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- Title California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions
- Author Richard A. Minnich
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-06-18
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520253537 / 0520253531
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Wild flowers - California, Biological invasions - California
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007040978
- Dewey Decimal Code 582.130
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/04/2008, Page 17
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