TY - BOOK ID - 77866486 TI - Serpentine geoecology of western North America : geology, soils, and vegetation PY - 2007 SN - 0197562124 1280838159 0195343689 1429420464 9780195343687 9781429420464 0190290056 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ultrabasic rocks KW - Soils KW - Environmental geology KW - Geoecology KW - Environmental protection KW - Physical geology KW - Earth (Soils) KW - Mold, Vegetable KW - Mould, Vegetable KW - Soil KW - Vegetable mold KW - Agricultural resources KW - Plant growing media KW - Regolith KW - Land capability for agriculture KW - Rocks, Ultrabasic KW - Ultramafic rocks KW - Igneous rocks KW - Serpentine content UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866486 AB - 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. ER -