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This thoroughly revised, entirely rewritten edition of what is the essential reference on California's diverse and ever-changing vegetation now brings readers a state-of-the-art view of California's plant ecosystems. Integrating decades of research, community ecologists and field botanists describe and classify California's vegetation types, identify environmental factors that determine the distribution of vegetation types, analyze the role of disturbance regimes in vegetation dynamics, chronicle change due to human activities, identify conservation issues, describe restoration strategies, and ... More
Keywords: California, plant ecosystems, community ecology, field botany, vegetation dynamics, human activity, conservation, soil, restoration
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520249554 |
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520249554.001.0001 |
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