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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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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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Virus Discovery in Desert Tortoise Fecal Samples: Novel Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses

Viruses, 2020
The Sonoran Desert tortoise Gopherus morafkai is adapted to the desert, and plays an important ecological role in this environment. There is limited information on the viral diversity associated with tortoises (family Testudinidae), and to date no DNA ...
Joseph P. Orton, Matheo Morales, Rafaela S. Fontenele, Kara Schmidlin, Simona Kraberger, Daniel J. Leavitt, Timothy H. Webster, Melissa A. Wilson, Kenro Kusumi, Greer A. Dolby, Arvind Varsani   +10 more
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Biocrusts do not differentially influence emergence and early establishment of native and non‐native grasses

Ecosphere, 2021
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) cover the soil surface of global drylands and interact with vascular plants. Biocrusts may influence the availability and nature of safe sites for plant recruitment and the susceptibility of an area to invasion by non ...
Cheryl McIntyre, Steven R. Archer, Katharine I. Predick, Jayne Belnap   +3 more
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In memoriam Dr. Philip C. Rosen (1955-2020)

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2021
Philip Clark Rosen was born in New York City, USA, on February 25, 1955. “Phil” as he was known by many who knew him best, was a leading herpetologist and ecologist in the Sonoran desert region.
Rafael Alejandro Lara-Resendiz
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Marine subsidies produce cactus forests on desert islands

Scientific Reports, 2022
In island systems, nitrogen-rich seabird guano is a marine subsidy that can shape terrestrial plant communities. In zones of nutrient upwelling such as the Gulf of California, copious seabird guano is commonplace on bird islands.
Benjamin T. Wilder, Amanda T. Becker, David L. Dettman   +2 more
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Mycoplasma agassizii, an opportunistic pathogen of tortoises, shows very little genetic variation across the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Mycoplasma agassizii is a common cause of upper respiratory tract disease in Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). So far, only two strains of this bacterium have been sequenced, and very little is known about its patterns of genetic diversity ...
Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira, Franziska C Sandmeier, Chava L Weitzman, C Richard Tracy, Shalyn N Bauschlicher, Richard L Tillett, David Alvarez-Ponce   +6 more
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