Gentry’s Río Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest & Environs of Northwest
Language: English
Published by University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1998
Series: Book 25 of 35 - Southwest Center
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Green boards. Minor rubbing. In Mylar cover. Inscribed by David Yetman, Thomas van Devender, Paul Martin, and Phil Jenkins on ffep.
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- Title
- Gentry’s Río Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest & Environs of Northwest
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press, Tucson
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816517266
- ISBN 13
- 9780816517268
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 25 of 35: Southwest Center
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.
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About the Author
Paul S. Martin is a professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of Arizona. David Yetman is a research social scientist at the University of Arizona and host of the television show The Desert Speaks. B>Mark Fishbein currently teaches at Washington State University. Phil Jenkins is an assistant curator of the University of Arizona Herbarium.
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