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A Flora of San Nicolas Island, California

Steve Junak

出版	Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 2008
主題	History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Nature / Plants / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyScience / Natural History
ISBN	09164360639780916436063
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GrmoLAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Along with a comprehensive listing of the island's botanical species, A Flora of San Nicolas Island California presents a fascinating illustrated history of the sheep ranching era from the 1800s to the present and explains how that history has shaped the botanical landscape. San Nicolas Island is the most remote of the islands off the coast of southern California. It is an island of contrasts, where an active military base is surrounded by the ever-changing ocean and beaches teeming with marine mammals. A number of unique plants and animals are found here, including a diminutive island fox. The island receives little rainfall-just over 8 inches a year on average-so the landscape changes dramatically with the seasons.