Sonoran Desert Plants.Sonoran Desert Sonoran Desert Arid region, western North America. Covering 120,000 sq mi (310,000 sq km), the Sonoran Desert is located in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, U.S., and northern Baja California and western Sonora state, Mex. Plants Raymond M. Turner, et. al. University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. Press 355 S. Euclid, #103, Tucson, AZ 85719 0816525196 $39.95 uapress.arizona.edu The Sonoran Desert is a unique ecosystem with fragile and unusual plants: that's why any college-level collection specializing in botany botany, science devoted to the study of plants. Botany, microbiology, and zoology together compose the science of biology. Humanity's earliest concern with plants was with their practical uses, i.e., for fuel, clothing, shelter, and, particularly, food and drugs. will want to include Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas in their collection. The atlas packs in details on the taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, , distribution and ecology of over three hundred plants from trees to succulents, and represents over three decades of compilation. Graphs, charts, maps, and black and white photos accompany the botanical details. A specialty item? You bet--but invaluable for the right reference collection. |
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