The view from Bald Hill : thirty years in an Arizona grassland /
In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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Table of Contents:
- COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF TABLES
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ONE: THE GRASSLANDS OF CORONADO
- TWO: ON BEING THE CONTROL
- THREE: WAITING FOR RAIN
- FOUR: FENCELINES
- FIVE: HERPS
- SIX: ISLANDS OF FIRE
- SEVEN: OAKS, ACORNS, AND RUGGED GROUPS
- EIGHT: LITTLE BROWN BIRDS
- NINE: FRAGMENTS
- TEN: THE NEST BOX EXPERIMENT
- ELEVEN: PLAINS LOVEGRASS
- TWELVE: COTTON RATS AND REAL DOGS
- THIRTEEN: ALIENS
- FOURTEEN: THE WORLD IS FULL OF LIFE
- APPENDIX: SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
- NOTES
- LITERATURE CITED
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y.
