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Seed Menus: An integrated decision‐support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The combination of ecosystem stressors, rapid climate change, and increasing landscape‐scale development has necessitated active restoration across large tracts of disturbed habitats in the arid southwestern United States.
Daniel F. Shryock, Lesley A. DeFalco, Todd C. Esque   +2 more
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Life under quartz: Hypolithic mosses in the Mojave Desert. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Several species of dryland cyanobacteria are known to occur as hypoliths under semi-translucent rocks. In the Mojave Desert, these organisms find refuge from intense solar radiation under milky quartz where moisture persists for a longer period of time ...
Jenna T B Ekwealor, Kirsten M Fisher
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Impact of solar and wind development on conservation values in the Mojave Desert. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
In 2010, The Nature Conservancy completed the Mojave Desert Ecoregional Assessment, which characterizes conservation values across nearly 130,000 km2 of the desert Southwest.
Sophie S Parker, Brian S Cohen, James Moore   +2 more
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Leaf Venation and Morphology Help Explain Physiological Variation in Yucca brevifolia and Hesperoyucca whipplei Across Microhabitats in the Mojave Desert, CA [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Different microclimates can have significant impact on the physiology of succulents that inhabit arid environments such as the Mojave Desert (California).
Amber R. Jolly, Joseph Zailaa, Ugbad Farah, Janty Woojuh, Félicia Makaya Libifani, Darlene Arzate, Christian Alex Caranto, Zayra Correa, Jose Cuba, Josephina Diaz Calderon, Nancy Garcia, Laura Gastelum, Ivette Gutierrez, Matthew Haro, Monserrat Orozco, Jessica Lamban Pinlac, Andoni Miranda, Justin Nava, Christina Nguyen, Edgar Pedroza, Jennyfer Perdomo, Scott Pezzini, Ho Yuen, Christine Scoffoni   +23 more
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Using movement to inform conservation corridor design for Mojave desert tortoise [PDF]

Movement Ecology, 2020
Background Preserving corridors for movement and gene flow among populations can assist in the recovery of threatened and endangered species. As human activity continues to fragment habitats, characterizing natural corridors is important in establishing ...
Steven J. Hromada, Todd C. Esque, Amy G. Vandergast, Kirsten E. Dutcher, Corey I. Mitchell, Miranda E. Gray, Tony Chang, Brett G. Dickson, Kenneth E. Nussear   +8 more
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Quantifying development to inform management of Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoise habitat in the American southwest

Endangered Species Research, 2020
Two tortoise species native to the American southwest have experienced significant habitat loss from development and are vulnerable to ongoing threats associated with continued development.
Carter, SK, Nussear, KE, Esque, TC, Leinwand, IIF, Masters, E, Inman, RD, Carr, NB, Allison, LJ   +7 more
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Geophysical, remote sensing, GIS, and isotopic applications for a better understanding of the structural controls on groundwater flow in the Mojave Desert, California

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2015
Study region: Mojave Desert, USA. Study focus: An integrated (near-surface geophysics, remote sensing, isotopic analyses) study was conducted in the Mojave River Basin and Morongo Groundwater Basin to investigate potential effects that the Helendale ...
D. Dailey, W. Sauck, M. Sultan, A. Milewski, M. Ahmed, W.R. Laton, R. Elkadiri, J. Foster, C. Schmidt, T. Al Harbi   +9 more
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Treatment timing defined for Egyptian alfalfa weevil in the high desert

California Agriculture, 1990
Profits were highest in Mojave Desert alfalfa when treatment for Egyptian alfalfa weevil was applied soon after winter plant regrowth began and leaf damage was present on new stems.
Vernon Stern, Steve Orloff
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Divergent behavior amid convergent evolution: A case of four desert rodents learning to respond to known and novel vipers. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Desert communities world-wide are used as natural laboratories for the study of convergent evolution, yet inferences drawn from such studies are necessarily indirect.
Sonny Shlomo Bleicher, Burt P Kotler, Omri Shalev, Austin Dixon, Keren Embar, Joel S Brown   +5 more
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Stress-Tolerance and Taxonomy of Culturable Bacterial Communities Isolated from a Central Mojave Desert Soil Sample

Geosciences, 2019
The arid Mojave Desert is one of the most significant terrestrial analogue objects for astrobiological research due to its genesis, mineralogy, and climate.
Andrey A. Belov, Vladimir S. Cheptsov, Elena A. Vorobyova, Natalia A. Manucharova, Zakhar S. Ezhelev   +4 more
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