The Phenotypic Plasticity of Death Valley’s Pupfish

2008; Sigma Xi; Volume: 96; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1511/2008.69.3668

ISSN

1545-2786

Autores

Sean C. Lema,

Tópico(s)

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Resumo

ked even of lichen. For the most part, that description is accurate. As one of the world's harshest desert regions, Death Valley is a land of eroding bad lands, scorching alluvial fans, and bar ren flats of mud and salt. Even maps of the Death Valley region of California and Nevada al lude to the region's sweltering tem peratures. Furnace Creek, the Funeral Mountains, Dante's View, the Devil's Golf Course?the names of its geologi cal features are omens of an extreme landscape. And, in those extremes, Death Valley delivers. Death Valley holds concurrent titles of being the

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