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California's Fading Wildflowers - lost legacy and biological invasions

California's Fading Wildflowers - lost legacy and biological invasions Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Minnich, Richard A

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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 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.]. Pictorial boards. Very Good.
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  • Title California's Fading Wildflowers - lost legacy and biological invasions
  • Author Minnich, Richard A
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles
  • Date 2008
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 016057
  • 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)
  • 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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From the rear cover

"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

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/04/2008, Page 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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