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  • The Natural History of the Trans-Pecos

    Desert Legends, Rugged Grandeur, and the Big Bend

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    The last frontier in Texas, the Trans-Pecos region is an immense and remote series of desert basins in the western-most part of the state. Columns of rock and stony debris dot the landscape, with various peaks, such as the notable El Capitan, rising from a long-forgotten sea floor. While the acidic and shallow desert soil only allows for scrubby vegetation in many places, what survives is rugged, ... Leer más

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  • The Natural History of the Edwards Plateau

    The Texas Hill Country

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    The roughly 24 million acres that make up the Edwards Plateau, commonly known as the Texas Hill Country, are characterized by rolling highlands, picturesque river canyons, and beautiful springtime wildflowers. Located in the heart of Texas, this region is home to hundreds of natural springs, thousands of limestone caves, and the famous Devil’s Sinkhole. Encompassing grasslands, savannas, and ... Leer más

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  • The Natural History of Texas

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many distinctive landscapes, from prairie grasslands and hardwood forests to coastal lagoons and desert mountains.Beginning with the stories of how biologists ... Leer más

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  • Ecology of North America

    North America contains an incredibly diverse array of natural environments, each supporting unique systems of plant and animal life. These systems, the largest of which are biomes, form intricate webs of life that have taken millennia to evolve. This richly illustrated book introduces readers to this extraordinary array of natural communities and their subtle biological and geological interactions ... Leer más

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  • Texans on the Brink

    Threatened and Endangered Animals

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Leer más

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  • The Laguna Madre of Texas and Tamaulipas, Revised Edition

    Series series Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    The Laguna Madre is the only hypersaline coastal lagoon on the North American continent and only one of five worldwide. The lagoon is renowned for its vast seagrass meadows, huge wintering redhead population, and bountiful fishing grounds. In 2000, the Nature Conservancy, whose mission is the conservation of biodiversity through protection of habitat, recognized the need to amass all known ... Leer más

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  • Life in the Dark

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    An extreme wildlife photographer explores the bizarre species that thrive in complete darkness with more than 200mesmerizing color photos.Deep inside caves, at the bottoms of oceans and lakes, beneath the ground: these concealed habitats are absent of sunlight, and yet full of life. This strange world of complete darkness is inhabited by millions of life forms that most humans have never seen. Now ... Leer más

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  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of North American Reptiles And Amphibians: An Essential Guide To Reptiles And Amphibians Of Usa, Canada, And Mexico (Mobi Reference)

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  • The Galapagos

    A Natural History

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