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Natural history of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin / Kimball T. Harper [and others], editors.

Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©1994.

viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Fourteen diverse contributed papers provide an up-to-date summary of this remote region's geology, climates, and biology, including thorough treatments of the area's insects, fish, and reptiles. Other topics include the ecology and distribution of prehistoric human cultures in the region; how modern humans have used and abused resources in the Intermountain West; and genetic diversity among populations of conifers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Natural history -- Great Basin.

Natural history -- Colorado Plateau.

Glacial epoch -- Great Basin.

Glacial epoch -- Colorado Plateau.

Great Basin.

Colorado Plateau.

Harper, K. T. (Kimball T.), 1931-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kimball T. Harper [and others] -- Geologic contrasts of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau / Thomas H. Morris and Melissa A. Stubben -- Modern and Pleistocene climatic patterns in the West / Kenneth Lee Petersen -- The extinct Late Pleistocene mammals of the Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson -- Western Great Basin prehistory / James D. Wilde -- Changes in plant communities in the Great Basin induced by domestic livestock grazing / James A. Young -- People and place in a harsh land: the cultural geography of the Great Basin / Richard H. Jackson -- Distribution of genetic diversity within and among populations of Great Basin conifers / J.L. Hamrick, Andrew F. Schnabel and P.V. Wells -- Fishes of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau: past and present forms / John W. Sigler and William F. Sigler -- Insects of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau / C. Riley Nelson -- Elevational patterns of insects in the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau / Steven D. Warren and Kimball T. Harper.

Late Pleistocene and Holocene Herpetofaunas of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau / Jim I. Mead and Christopher J. Bell -- Recommendations for future research / Larry L. St. Clair [and others].

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