Gentrys Rio Mayo Plants

Author : Paul S. Martin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547459
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants written by Paul S. Martin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Río Mayo region of northwestern Mexico is a major geographic area whose natural history remains poorly known to outsiders. Lying in a region where desert and tropical, northern and southern, and continental and coastal species converge, it boasts an abundance of flora first documented by Howard Scott Gentry in 1942 in a book now widely regarded as a classic of botanical literature. This new book updates and amends Gentry's Río Mayo Plants. Undertaken with Gentry's support and participation before his death in 1993, it reproduces the original text, which appears here with annotations, and contains information on over 2,800 taxa—more than twice the 1,200 species first described by Gentry. The annotated list of plants includes information on distribution, habitat, appearance, common names, and indigenous uses. A new introduction provides historical background and a review of geography and vegetation. It also describes changes to the land and river wrought by agricultural development, expanded grazing, and lumbering. Throughout the text, the authors have endeavored to provide information on Río Mayo vegetation while emphasizing local knowledge and use of plants, to preserve Gentry's field-oriented focus, and to present botanical information with Gentry's exuberance and style. Río Mayo Plants has long stood as a book that displays a scientist's love of the English language, his fondness for native peoples, and his eye for beauty in nature. This updating of that work fills a gap in the botanical literature of this portion of North America and will be useful not only for botanists but also for biogeographers, taxonomists, land managers, and conservationists.

Author : Howard Scott Gentry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rio Mayo Plants written by Howard Scott Gentry and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Radding
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546916
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bountiful Deserts written by Cynthia Radding and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican borderlands for migrants seeking shelter and a new life. Bountiful Deserts foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, for whom the desert was anything but barren or empty. Instead, they nurtured and harvested the desert as a bountiful and sacred space. Drawing together historical texts and oral testimonies, archaeology, and natural history, author Cynthia Radding develops the relationships between people and plants and the ways that Indigenous people sustained their worlds before European contact through the changes set in motion by Spanish encounters, highlighting the long process of colonial conflicts and adaptations over more than two centuries. This work reveals the spiritual power of deserts by weaving together the cultural practices of historical peoples and contemporary living communities, centered especially on the Yaqui/Yoeme and Mayo/Yoreme. Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to paint an expansive picture of Indigenous worlds before and during colonial encounters. She re-creates the Indigenous worlds in both their spiritual and material realms, bringing together the analytical dimension of scientific research and the wisdom of oral traditions in its exploration of different kinds of knowledge about the natural world. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Author : Tucson Richard Stephen Felger Executive Director Drylands Institute, AZ
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199761272
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trees of Sonora, Mexico written by Tucson Richard Stephen Felger Executive Director Drylands Institute, AZ and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive treatment of the trees and tree-like plants of Sonora, a remarkably diverse and biologically important region, ranging from some of the driest and hottest areas in North America to cool, temperate woodlands and the northernmost tropical regions in the New World. The majority of the trees in this semi-arid region are at their northern limits in the Americas in this state and many range to South America. Thus, this book will be important to biologists in regions well outside of the area covered. Felger is the recognized expert in the area, and the book contains an enormous body of information nowhere else obtainable. The introductory chapter contains biotic and climatic information and an analysis of the geographical distributions of the trees of a state that is poorly known biologically. Two hundred eighty-five species of native and naturalized trees are covered, featuring extensive identification keys and illustrations, most of them newly produced for this book. The descriptive species accounts include common names, indigenous names, and synonyms, detailed botanical descriptions, ecological and geographic data, geographic ranges, natural history, economic uses, and, in many cases, other information such as horticultural uses and conservation status.

Author : Howard Scott Gentry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book The Agave Family in Sonora written by Howard Scott Gentry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set includes revised editions of some issues.

Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546339
Total Pages : 689 pages
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Download or read book Agaves of Continental North America written by Howard Scott Gentry and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1982-11-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.

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Total Pages : 922 pages
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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book SMRC Revista written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 798 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Southwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1292 pages
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Download or read book SIDA, Contributions to Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: