Grand Canyon wildlife
Subtitle: rim to river
By: Susan Lamb
Publisher: Grand Canyon Association
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Grand Canyon, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781934656488
Subjects: Canyon animals; Habitat (Ecology); Life zones; Natural history; Environmental conditions; Description and travel
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Different Worlds of Wildlife : How Different Animals Experience the World; title: Prologue: The Mountain Lion : A Keystone Species; title: Life Zones; title: C. Hart Merriam and the Life Zone Concept; title: Mixed-Conifer Forests and High Meadows of the Kaibab Plateau : Merriam's Boreal Zone; title: Ponderosa Forest : Merriam's Transition Zone; title: Pinyon-Juniper Woodland : Merriam's Upper Sonoran Zone; title: Treeless Desert Scrub : Merriam's Lower Sonoran Zone; title: Riparian; title: Aquatic : The Colorado River; title: Epilogue: Creeks; title: Sidebars and Extended Captions; title: Profile: John Muir; title: Profile: Aldo Leopold; title: Profile: Vernon Bailey; title: The Woodrat Chronicles; title: Profile: Edwin Dinwiddie McKee; title: Sidebars and Extended Captions; title: Territories of Time; title: The Grand Canyon Flyway; title: Thermals along the Rims; title: Caves; title: Escape Terrain; title: Desert Potholes; title: Species Accounts: Mammals (21); Birds (36); Reptiles and Amphibians (12); Fish (4); Invertebrates (9).