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Economic Botany

 

Plant life in the Sonoran Desert of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico has its origin in the dry tropics. This chapter provides a new perspective on the ecology and changes in plant life from the dry tropics to the desert, and analyzes the disputed southern boundary of the Sonoran Desert.

Vegetation and habitat diversity at the southern edge of the Sonoran Desert. Búrquez, A., A. Martínez-Yrízar, R.S. Felger, and D. Yetman. 1999. Pp. 36-67, In: R. H. Robichaux (editor). Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities. University of Arizona Press. Tucson.

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