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1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary |
From flying squirrels on high wooded plateaus to hanging gardens in redrock canyons, the Intermountain West is home to some of the world's rarest and most fascinating animals and plants. Creatures of Habitat details many unique but little-known talents of this region's strange and wonderful wild inhabitants and descibes their connections with native environments. For example, readers will learn about the pronghorn antelope's supercharged cardiovascular system, a brine shrimp-powered shorebird that each year flies nonstop from the Great Salt Lake to Central Argentina, and a rare mustard plant r. |
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Foreword: Lessons from song dogs / Barry School -- Introduction: How well do you know your neighbors? -- What's Happening to Wildlife? -- Animal life on the edge: Does it take a special breed? -- Mexican spotted owl -- Desert tortoise -- Gila monster -- Peccary -- Endangered animal communities: The keystone concept -- Utah prairie dog -- Burrowing owl -- Black-footed ferret -- Historic herds: Reintroducing native large animals into today's limited space -- Bison -- Sonoran pronghorn -- Bighorn sheep -- Alpine plants and animals: Hardy inhabitants of Utah's high country -- Alpine island in the sky -- Pika -- Moss campion -- Burke's mustard -- Spotted frog -- Flying squirrel -- Great Basin birds: Frequent flyers at Utah's busiest airport -- Migratory birds on the Great Salt Lake -- Whooping cranes and sandhill cranes -- Loggerhead shirke -- What's Happening to Wild Places? -- Island syndrome extinctions: How small an area is too small for nature to carry on? -- Aliens have invaded! Weeds take over habitat -- Western hydro-logic floods critical wildlife habitat -- Lake Powell -- Jordan River -- Can Utah's golf courses go green? -- Transforming the Wasatch Mountains into an amusement park -- Downhill demographics -- What harm can a ski run do? -- What Does the Future Hold? -- Legacy of predator control -- State-run animal farm -- Tough times for adolescent predators -- Decline of hunting leaves habitat hurting -- Nature Conservancy of Utah: Wheeling and dealing in race with extinction. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
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JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Zoology -- Utah.
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Zoology. |
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Utah. |
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Habitat (Ecology) -- Utah.
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Habitat (Ecology) |
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Zoology -- Great Basin.
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Habitat (Ecology) -- Great Basin.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Hengesbaugh, Mark Gerard. Creatures of habitat. Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001000415 |
| ISBN |
9780874214550 (electronic book) |
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0874214556 (electronic book) |
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9780874214178 |
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0874214173 (paperback) |
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