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Plant Responses to Anomalous Heat and Drought Events in the Sonoran Desert. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
A shift to greater aridification in dry regions of the world is ongoing and rapidly increasing in intensity, including in the biodiverse Sonoran Desert of the Southwest United States and northern Mexico.
Wilder BT, Hultine KR, Dorshow WB, Vanderplank SE, López BR, Medel-Narváez A, Marvan M, Kindl K, Musgrave A, Macfarlan S, Ezcurra E.   +10 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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Vegetation cover, topography, and low-traffic roads influence Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) movement and habitat selection [PDF]

Movement Ecology
Background Anthropogenic activities occurring throughout the Sonoran Desert are replacing and fragmenting habitat and reducing landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai).
Sean Sutor, Nancy E. McIntyre, Kerry L. Griffis-Kyle   +2 more
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Diet and chemical defenses of the Sonoran Desert toad. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius) is the only animal known to secrete the psychedelic compound 5-MeO-DMT as a chemical defense, but the source of 5-MeO-DMT in I. alvarius remains unknown.
Marina D Luccioni, Jules T Wyman, Edgard O Espinoza, Lauren A O'Connell   +3 more
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High water-use efficiency and growth contribute to success of non-native Erodium cicutarium in a Sonoran Desert winter annual community. [PDF]

Conserv Physiol, 2014
Erodium cicutarium, an invasive plant, has recently increased in abundance in the Sonoran Desert. We tested hypotheses for its success, and found no evidence for a release from natural enemies. Instead, E.
Kimball S, Gremer JR, Barron-Gafford GA, Angert AL, Huxman TE, Venable DL.   +5 more
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Detail of Sonoran Desert

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
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Physiological and life history changes associated with seasonal adaptation in the cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis

Biology Open, 2022
Many insects inhabiting temperate climates are faced with changing environmental conditions throughout the year. Depending on the species, these environmental fluctuations can be experienced within a single generation or across multiple generations ...
Tierney M. Shaible, Luciano M. Matzkin
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Why Partner with a Zoo or Garden? Selected Lessons from Seventy Years of Regional Conservation Partnerships at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022
Zoos and botanical gardens (ZBGs) play a variety of roles in regional conservation partnerships, including their most common role as the ex situ managers of rare plant and animal populations. Using case studies from a 70-year history of conservation work
Debra Colodner, Kim Franklin, Craig Ivanyi, John F. Wiens, Stéphane Poulin   +4 more
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DOMINANT SONORAN DESERT PLANT SPECIES HAVE DIVERGENT PHENOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Madroño, 2021
The southwestern U.S. is a global hotspot of climate change. Models project that temperatures will continue to rise through the end of the 21st century, accompanied by significant changes to the hydrological cycle.
Luke J. Zachmann, J. Wiens, K. Franklin, S. Crausbay, Vincent A. Landau, S. Munson   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes with disparate fire regimes. The elevational transition between desertscrub and montane
Benjamin T. Wilder, C. Jarnevich, Elizabeth Baldwin, J. Black, K. Franklin, P. Grissom, Katherine A. Hovanes, A. Olsson, J. Malusa, Abu S.M.G. Kibria, Yue M. Li, Aaron M. Lien, A. Ponce, J. Rowe, José R. Soto, Maya R. Stahl, N. Young, J. Betancourt   +17 more
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