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Relicts of a Beautiful Sea : Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World / Christopher J. Norment.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norment, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservation biology--Great Basin.
- Conservation biology.
- Desert ecology--Great Basin.
- Desert ecology.
- Toads--Great Basin.
- Toads.
- Salamanders--Great Basin.
- Salamanders.
- Great Basin--Climate.
- Great Basin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- The University of North Carolina Press 2014
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
- Contents:
- Collecting the dead
- A cultivation of slowness : the Inyo Mountains slender salamander (batrachoseps campi)
- Surviving an onslaught : the Owens pupfish (cyprinodon radiosus)
- Some fish : the salt creek and cottonball marsh pupfishes (cyprinodon salinus salinus and cyprinodon salinus milleri)
- A fragile existence : the devils hole pupfish (cyprinodon diabolis)
- Swimming from the ruins : the ash meadows and warm springs amargosa pupfishes (cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes and cyprinodon nevadensis pectoralis)
- Exile and loneliness : the black toad (bufo exsul)
- The view from telescope peak
- Epilogue : hold steady.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890846907
- 9781469619835
- 1469619830
- 9781469618678
- 1469618672
- OCLC:
- 892431915
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