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Serpentine geoecology of western North America
1 online resource (viii, 512 pages) : illustrations.
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.
Earl B. Alexander, Roger G. Coleman, Todd Keeler-Wolfe, Susan P. Harrison.
Includes bibliographical references and index.