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Wild North Carolina : discovering the wonders of our state's natural communities / David Blevins and Michael P. Schafale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blevins, David, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--North Carolina.
- Natural history.
- Natural areas--North Carolina.
- Natural areas.
- Biotic communities--North Carolina.
- Biotic communities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps, savannas, ponds, pocosins, and flatrocks, David Blevins and Michael Schafale reveal in words and photographs natural patterns of the landscape that will help readers see familiar places in a new way and new places with a sense of familiarity.Wild North Carolina introduces t
- Contents:
- Contents; Authors' Note; Introduction to Natural Communities; Spruce-Fir Forests; Northern Hardwood Forests; Grass and Heath Balds; High-Elevation Rock Outcrops; Mountain Oak Forests; Mountain Cove Forests; Dry Conifer Woodlands of the Mountains; Mountain Bogs and Fens; Upland Seepages and Spray Cliffs; Piedmont and Coastal Plain Oak Forests; Moist Hardwood Forests of the Piedmont and Coastal Plain; Piedmont and Mountain Rivers and Floodplains; Low-Elevation Cliffs and Rock Outcrops; Piedmont and Mountain Glades and Barrens; Piedmont Upland Swamps and Pools; Dry Longleaf Pine Woodlands
- Wet Pine SavannasCoastal Plain Blackwater Rivers and Floodplains; Coastal Plain Brownwater Rivers and Floodplains; Wet Forests of Coastal Plain Flats; Pocosins; Coastal Plain Small-Basin Communities; Natural-Lake Communities; Tidal Freshwater Swamps and Marshes; Salt Marshes and Sounds; Maritime Grasslands and Beaches; Maritime Forests and Thickets; The Future of Natural Communities; Acknowledgments; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890884510
- 9780807877791
- 0807877794
- OCLC:
- 712048382
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