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Serpentine geoecology of western North America : geology, soils, and vegetation /

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Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them. Modern geoecology especially concentrates on showing how geology and soils affect the structure, composition and distribution of plant communities in...

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Main Authors: Alexander, Earl B. (Author), Coleman, R. G. (Robert Griffin), 1923-2020 (Author), Keeler-Wolf, Todd (Author), Harrison, Susan (Susan Patricia) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Ultrabasic rocks > West (U.S.)
Ultrabasic rocks > Northwest, Canadian.
Soils > Serpentine content > West (U.S.)
Soils > Serpentine content > Northwest, Canadian.
Environmental geology > West (U.S.)
Environmental geology > Northwest, Canadian.
Roches ultrabasiques > Nord-Ouest canadien.
Sols > Teneur en serpentine > Nord-Ouest canadien.
Géoécologie > Nord-Ouest canadien.
Environmental geology
Soils > Serpentine content
Ultrabasic rocks
Canada > Canadian Northwest
West United States
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Summary:Geoecology is a fruitful interdisciplinary field, relating rocks to soils to plant and animal communities and studying the interactions between them. Modern geoecology especially concentrates on showing how geology and soils affect the structure, composition and distribution of plant communities in a certain research area. This book applies the principles of geoecology to Western North America, and to a specific kind of rock, the fascinating serpentine belts that run along the continental margins of the West Coast from Alaska to Baja.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2007.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 512 pages) : illustrations.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197562123 (ebook)
0197562124 (ebook)