Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago : Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword, by Exequiel Ezcurra -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I. The Islands and Their Vegetation -- Introduction -- Geologic History and Island Physiography, with Michael E. Oskin -- Vegetation Communities -- Historical Human Use and Influence -- Non-native and Invasive Species -- Administration and Conservation -- Island Diversity -- Isla Tiburón -- Coastal communities -- The eastern bajada -- Sierra Kunkaak -- The Central Valley -- Sierra Menor and the west coast -- The North (Tecomate) -- The South (Sauzal) -- Isla San Esteban -- Isla Dátil -- Isla Cholludo -- Isla Alcatraz -- Isla Patos -- Isla San Pedro Mártir -- Isla San Pedro Nolasco -- Part II. Botanical Explorations on the Sonoran Islands: Collectors, Associates, and Selected Personalities -- Part III. The Flora -- Species Accounts -- Doubtful and Excluded Reports and Ones in Need of Verification -- Addendum -- Part IV. Gazetteer -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Checklist of the Flora of the Sonoran Islands -- Appendix B. Species Mutually Absent from Isla Tiburón and Mainland Sonora -- Appendix C. Botanical Name Changes -- Literature Cited -- Index.

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