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Impact of Change in Tree Canopy Cover on Ecosystem Services in Desert Cities: A Case in Phoenix, USA

Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications
The study aims to answer the question of how the change in tree canopy cover in desert cities due to the urbanization process affects ecosystem services. The city of Phoenix, which is located in the northern part of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern
Nihat Karakuş, Rifat Olgun
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Valuing Private and Public Greenspace Using Remotely Sensed Vegetation Indices [PDF]

In a typical metropolitan area, greenspace varies substantially in its quality and extent. Remotely sensed vegetation index data is used to characterize the heterogeneity in private and public greenspace (riparian corridors) in metropolitan Tucson ...
Bark-Hodgins, Rosalind H., Colby, Bonnie G., Osgood, Daniel E.   +2 more
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Regional Landscape System Protection in the Urbanising Desert Southwest: Lessons from the Phoenix Metropolitan Region, USA

Landscape Review, 2004
Through the lens of holistic landscape ecology, the authors present for public consideration a desert landscape typology and plan assessment criteria. As a case study, historical trends in open space planning and two contrasting examples of recent open ...
Laura Musacchio, Joseph Ewan, Ruth Yabes
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Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams - an inter-biome perspective [PDF]

, 2003
The Lotic Intersite Nitrogen experiment (LINX) was a coordinated study of the relationships between North American biomes and factors governing ammonium uptake in streams. Our objective was to relate inter-biome variability of ammonium uptake to physical,
Bowden, William B., Dahm, Clifford N., Dodds, Walter K., Findlay, Stuart, Gregory, Stanley V., Grimm, Nancy B., Hamilton, Stephen K., Johnson, Sherri L., Marti, Eugenia, McDowell, William H., Meyer, Judy L., Morrall, Donna D., Mulholland, Patrick J., Peterson, Bruce J., Tanks, Jennifer L., Thomas, Steven A., Valett, H. Maurice, Webster, Jackson R., Wollheim, Wilfred M.   +18 more
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Nature and origin of secondary mineral coatings on volcanic rocks of the Black Mountain, Stonewall Mountain, and Kane Springs Wash volcanic centers, southern, Nevada [PDF]

The following subject areas are covered: (1) genetic, spectral, and LANDSAT Thematic Mapper imagery relationship between desert varnish and tertiary volcanic host rocks, southern Nevada; (2) reconnaissance geologic mapping of the Kane Springs Wash ...
Chenevey, Michael J., Hsu, Liang C., Spatz, David M., Taranik, James V.   +3 more
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\u3cem\u3eTestimony\u3c/em\u3e, Landscape and the West: A Conversation with Stephen Trimble [PDF]

, 2002
This interview with Stephen Trimble is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature ...
Sumner, David Thomas
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A Survey of the Ecology of Tecoma stans [PDF]

, 1964
Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex H.B.K., a shrub or small tree in the Bignoniaceae, is a widely distributed polymorphic complex of the Western Hemisphere tropics and subtropics, and is commonly planted as an ornamental throughout the tropical world.
Pelton, John
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Seasonality Modulates the Cellular Antioxidant Activity and Antiproliferative Effect of Sonoran Desert Propolis. [PDF]

Antioxidants (Basel), 2020
Mendez-Pfeiffer P, Alday E, Carreño AL, Hernández-Tánori J, Montaño-Leyva B, Ortega-García J, Valdez J, Garibay-Escobar A, Hernandez J, Valencia D, Velazquez C.   +10 more
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Abundance of microflora in soils of desert regions [PDF]

Physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of desert ...
Cameron, R. E.
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Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World. By Cathy Moser Marlett. 2014. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 304 pp. $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-8165-3068-7.

Ethnobiology Letters, 2015
Nemer E. Narchi
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