1st Edition
West Southwest Vertebrate Life in Southern California
Section I Fundamentals
Chapter 1 The Land
Chapter 2 The Climate
Chapter 3 Exploration, Collections and the Museum Tradition
Chapter 4 The Three Pillars of Natural History
Section II Settings
Chapter 5 Vegetation Past and Present
Chapter 6 Plant–Vertebrate Communities
Section III Vertebrates
Chapter 7 Amphibians
Chapter 8 Turtles and an Overview of the Amniotes
Chapter 9 Lepdiosaurs—Squamates and Tuatara
Chapter 10 Birds
Chapter 11 Mammals
Chapter 12 The Ice Age Mammals
Biography
Gregory K. Pregill is a native Californian born in Pasadena, California. He received a Bachelor's degree from Baylor University, a Master's degree from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the University of Kansas. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow, United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution, and became the Curator and Chairman of the Department of Herpetology at the San Diego Natural History Museum (1981-93). He moved from the Museum to become Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of San Diego (1993-2016) and is now retired. Among his many publications, he was the co-editor of a foundational reference – Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families.
