Serpentine geoecology of western North America : geology, soils, and vegetation / E.B. Alexander ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Earl B.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ultrabasic rocks--West (U.S.).

Ultrabasic rocks.

Ultrabasic rocks--Northwest, Canadian.

Soils--Serpentine content--West (U.S.).

Soils.

Soils--Serpentine content--Northwest, Canadian.

Environmental geology--West (U.S.).

Environmental geology.

Environmental geology--Northwest, Canadian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction; I. Geology and Hydrology; II. Soils and Life in Them; III. Plant Life on Serpentine; IV. Serpentine Domains of Western North America; V. Social Issues and Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; Plant Index; General Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029005-6

0-19-756212-4

1-280-83815-9

0-19-534368-9

1-4294-2046-4

OCLC:

560275058