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Author Alcock, John, 1942- author.

Title When the Rains Come : a Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Introduction; January; Two Ravens; A Dead Saguaro; Survivors; February; Urban Changes; The Long History of Littering; Drought; What a Difference a Year Makes; Fire in the Desert; March; Paloverde #10; A Wonderful Rain; Another Paloverde; The Saguaro Recruit; April; A Symmetrical Saguaro; The Responsive Desert; May; A National Monument; Urban Sprawl and Urban Wildlife; June; Sonoran Desert Lizards; Saguaro Fruit; July; Monsoon Drizzle; Heat Wave; The Pause; A Pseudostorm; The Old Burn; A Scorcher; The Season of the Ants; August; The Beginning of the End (of Summer); Hilltopping Wasps
The Big Wash and the Vanished SeepAugust Rarities; September; Monsoon Plants; The End of the Monsoon; The Hackberry Hike; Boulders and Treefrogs; October; Summer Resurgence; Autumn Is Really Here; More Evidence of Autumn; October's End; Eagletail Wilderness; November; November Heat Wave; Determined Hilltoppers; The South Maricopa Wilderness; December; The Cut Fence; Winter Ants; Winter Rain -- Full Circle; The End of a Year; References; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Alcock, John, 1942-
SUBJECT Alcock, John, 1942- fast
Subject Biologists -- Arizona -- Biography
Desert ecology -- Sonoran Desert
Natural history -- Sonoran Desert
NATURE -- General.
Biologists
Desert ecology
Natural history
Arizona
North America -- Sonoran Desert
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816533374
0816533377