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Discovering the Desert, Legacy of the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory
by William McGinnies
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 1982
- PAPER
- 276 PAGES
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A history of Sonoran desert research, this book is an engaging survey of the geography, ecology and climate of desert life in the American Southwest -- and especially of the pioneering work conducted at the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory. With maps, diagrams and black-and-white photos.
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