
Grasses of Colorado
Robert B. Shaw(Author)
University Press of Colorado
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
662 pages
978-1-60732-139-2 (ISBN)
Description
This systematic treatment of Colorado grasses will help students, naturalists, botanists, ecologists, agronomists, range scientists, and other interested readers identify and learn about this unique and economically important plant family. Grasses of Colorado describes all grasses known to occur in the state outside of cultivation: more than 300 native, introduced, naturalized, and adventive species.Colorado's elevation range of more than 11,000 feet creates a wide variety of habitats that supports a spectacular diversity of grasses. With 335 known species, Colorado has one of the most diverse and extensive grass floras in the United States.
Comprehensive coverage, useful keys, and detailed species descriptions in Grasses of Colorado will make this volume the standard reference for years to come. Robert B. Shaw provides overviews of Colorado's physiography and ecoregions and introduces the grass plant in plain, enjoyable text. He includes a checklist of Colorado grasses, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms that may be unfamiliar to nonspecialists. Line drawings, state distribution maps, and habitat notes for each species enable accurate plant identification, familiarity with regional ecogeography, and increased understanding of plant ecology of the Rocky Mountains.
A monumental accomplishment certain to become the standard work on the subject, Grasses of Colorado synthesizes existing literature and incorporates recent scientific findings to offer a complete, current reference.
Comprehensive coverage, useful keys, and detailed species descriptions in Grasses of Colorado will make this volume the standard reference for years to come. Robert B. Shaw provides overviews of Colorado's physiography and ecoregions and introduces the grass plant in plain, enjoyable text. He includes a checklist of Colorado grasses, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms that may be unfamiliar to nonspecialists. Line drawings, state distribution maps, and habitat notes for each species enable accurate plant identification, familiarity with regional ecogeography, and increased understanding of plant ecology of the Rocky Mountains.
A monumental accomplishment certain to become the standard work on the subject, Grasses of Colorado synthesizes existing literature and incorporates recent scientific findings to offer a complete, current reference.
Reviews / Votes
"The introductory information is superb and includes a discussion of the importance of grasses, the physiography and ecoregions of Colorado, and an excellent discussion of grass anatomy and plant structure with line drawings. I have already listed the completeness of the actual contents of the flora, but there is also a glossary of terms and an index that lets you find species using either the old or new nomenclature. Isn't that nice!"-Pat Murphy, Aquilegia, the Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter "This comprehensive, systematic treatment of the grasses of Colorado is going to become the standard for new floras in the state."
-Stephan L. Hatch, Great Plains Research
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Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
910 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60732-139-2 (9781607321392)
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Robert B. Shaw was a professor in the Department of Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship and director of the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands at Colorado State University. He is currently a professor of ecosystem science and management and associate director of the Institute of Renewable Natural Resources at Texas A&M University.
Content
Preface; Weighted Boundedness for Multilinear Singular Integral Operator with Variable Calderon-Zygmund Kernel; L'integration Par Rapport a Une Multimesure, Monotone et S-Compacte, a Valeurs Convexes Fermees; Pseudo-Differential Operators & Commutators in Multiplier Spaces; RBSDEs With Stochastic Monotone & Polynomial Growth Condition; Solution of the Master Equation in the Generic Fock Case & Non Fock case & the Existence of Invariant State in $M_2; Weak Approximation in Besov Spaces of Gaussian Sheets From Poisson Processes; A Note on Some Classes of Good Group Codes; Maximal Function in Quantum Calculus; String Homology of a Product of Spheres & the Witt Algebra; Approximation of G-Frames in Hilbert Spaces; On Identities in Law for Some Functionals of Levy Processes; On the Rate of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem for Martingale Difference Sequences of the Kiefer-Wolfowitz Algorithm; Application of Large Deviation Principle & Homogenization to a Semilinear PDE; Distribution & Convolution Product in Quantum Calculus; Delayed Stochastic Evolution Equations of Jump Type: Existence & Uniqueness of Solutions; Continuity & Differentiability Properties of Parameter-Dependent Solutions of the at"-Equation; Index.