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Forest ecology --- Plants --- Fire ecology --- Chaparral ecology --- Effect of fires on --- -Fire ecology --- -Forest ecology --- -Plants, Effect of fires on --- -Plants --- Plants, Effect of fires on --- Fires --- Fire resistant plants --- Forests and forestry --- Ecology --- Ecopyrology --- Fire --- Chaparral --- Maquis ecology --- Shrubland ecology --- Effect of wildfires on --- Environmental aspects --- -Chaparral ecology --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Forest ecosystems --- Forest ecology - California - San Bernardino Mountains. --- Plants - Effect of fires on - California - San Bernardino Mountains. --- Fire ecology - California - San Bernardino Mountains. --- Chaparral ecology - California - San Bernardino Mountains.
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Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.
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Forêt mélangée --- Mixed forests --- Forêt résineuse --- Coniferous forests --- Côtes --- Coasts --- Deserts --- Écologie forestière --- forest ecology --- Composition botanique --- Botanical composition --- Biotope --- biotopes --- California --- 581.9 <794> --- 972 --- Botany --- -Botany --- -Plant ecology --- -581.9 <72> --- 581.526.53 --- Plants --- Ecology --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--California --- Geschiedenis van Mexico --- History --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Mexico --- Desert formations. Steppe formations. Arid, dry-desert formations. Succulents. --- Plant ecology --- History. --- Baja California --- Central America --- Mexico --- flora --- vegetation --- 581.526.53 Desert formations. Steppe formations. Arid, dry-desert formations. Succulents. --- 581.9 <72> Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Mexico --- 972 Geschiedenis van Mexico --- 581.9 <794> Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--California --- 581.9 <72> --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Desert formations. Steppe formations. Arid, dry-desert formations. Succulents --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic botany --- Floristic ecology
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