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Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
EDIS, 2012 Since its arrival in the Florida Keys in 1989, this invasive species has become a serious threat to the diversity and abundance of Opuntia cactus in North America. The spread of this moth raises concerns about harm to rare opuntioid species (prickly pear
Dale H. Habeck +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Over the past century, prickly pear (PP) cactus (e.g., genus Opuntia; subgenus Platyopuntia) has increased on semi-arid rangelands. Effective detection of cacti abundance and spatial pattern is challenging due to the inherent heterogeneity of rangeland ...
Xavier A. Jaime +6 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 12, December 2025.We conducted individual banding and resighting studies and collected genetic data in populations of coastal Cactus Wrens in Orange and San Diego Counties between 2009 and 2020. We found that survival was much lower for hatch year birds than after hatch year birds and that higher precipitation and heterozygosity had positive effects on survival. Results
Amy G. Vandergast +6 more
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Non-Contacting Plant Health Monitoring via Ultrasound in Ambient Air
Biophysica, 2022 In this work, we report a non-destructive and non-contacting ultrasound system with a novel air-coupled transducer to continuously monitor the drying process of prickly pear (nopal) pads in a lab environment.
Teng Yang +3 more
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Long‐term monitoring of island night lizards on San Nicolas Island
The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 89, Issue 8, November 2025.We describe the results of long‐term population monitoring of the island night lizard Xantusia riversiana on San Nicolas Island, California, following the species' removal from the U.S. Endangered Species list in 2014. The species' distribution remains largely the same since studies in the 1990s, though small increases in distribution were noted at the
Charles A. Drost +4 more
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Aim Climate change is altering species distributions globally, but predicting the impacts on assemblages and their spatial overlaps under future scenarios remains an ongoing challenge. Here, we explore how climate change influences distributions among two interacting assemblages.
Jenna Braun, Christopher J. Lortie
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Preserving postharvest storage quality of fresh-cut cactus pears by using different bio-materials
CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2020 Background Cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller) is an important food source for human beings but its consumption and marketability are limited due to the presence of spines and glochids on the fruit surface. Fresh-cut, ready-to-eat cactus pears
İbrahim Kahramanoğlu +3 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 4, October–December 2025.Conservation translocations of the Bahamian hutia, a threatened Caribbean rodent, have prompted concerns about vegetation damage. Extensive vegetation damage reported on John Higgs Cay (Turks and Caicos Islands), along with the presence of abundant large faecal pellets and local traditions of large‐bodied rodents called ‘hootees’, was suggestive of ...
Maria H. Zicos +6 more
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Microbiology ResearchThe prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica L.) is an emblematic crop for Mexico’s economy, gastronomy, and culture. Microbial communities play an important role in the health, development, and productivity of crops.
Lorena Jacqueline Gómez-Godínez +6 more
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Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2017 The spider mite Tetranychus merganser occurs in some crops in Mexico and USA. This mite could be considered a potential pest in countries like Japan. In this work we recorded the damages that T.
J. Lima-Espíndola, J.M. Vanegas-Rico
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