{"product_id":"west-southwest","title":"West Southwest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWest Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic insight, and ecological detail. Southern California is a vast region of very different habitats – all with an abundance of unique species of plants and animals and all within a day’s drive. Southern California shares an evolutionary history with other areas of the Southwest, but it has its own identity. The book is not a field identification guide. Instead, the book provides the evolutionary history of species groups, details where the individual species occur and their habitat preferences, and how they avoid the perils of predation and human impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Selling Features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummarizes the evolutionary background and ecology of southern California’s vertebrates: freshwater fish, amphibians, turtles, snakes, lizards, birds and mammals. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReviews the history of southern California’s biotic communities from the coast to the deserts and their association with other areas of the Southwest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses vertebrate design and how it affects performance and lifestyle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtends and enhances the content of regional field identification guides. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes 120 maps, figures and color plates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256716677464,"sku":"9781138496965","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138496965.jpg?v=1777581922","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/west-southwest","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}