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An Aridamerican model for agriculture in a hotter, water scarce world
Plants, People, Planet, 2020 Societal Impact Statement Climate change is dramatically restructuring agriculture and damaging crops, food security, and human health, especially in deserts.
Gary Paul Nabhan +13 more
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Ecology of an ocelot population at the northern edge of the species’ distribution in northern Sonora, Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 We used data from eight years of camera trapping at Rancho El Aribabi, a cattle ranch and conservation property in northern Sonora, Mexico, to examine the ecology of the northern-most known breeding population of ocelots (Leopardus pardalis).
James C. Rorabaugh +4 more
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amaranthus palmeri is one of the most troublesome invasive agricultural weeds worldwide, exhibiting super invasiveness and high resistance to conventional management strategies. Artificial microRNA‐mediated silencing technology, coupled with a nanoparticle‐mediated delivery system, represents an attractive approach for fertility control in A ...
Liyong Sun +6 more
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Grasas y Aceites, 2001 During storage, oils from seeds of wild legumes of the Sonoran Desert have shown greater stability than oils derived from conventional sources. In this work, oxidation process was evaluated during the storage (122 day) of mixtures of oils: Mezquite ...
M. Ortega-Nieblas +2 more
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Discordance Between Mitochondrial and Nuclear Contact Zones Within Antelope Ground Squirrels (Ammospermophilus) [PDF]
, 2020 A common biogeographic pattern found in many co-distributed species along the Baja California peninsula is the genetic divergence in the Vizcaíno Desert.
Gray, Shannon
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Plant Biology, EarlyView.Using a 4‐year drought experiment in the hot deserts of the US, we found that herbaceous plant communities were more sensitive to seasonal precipitation than to the cumulative effects of drought. Abstract The hot deserts of the southwestern United States are experiencing increased frequency, severity, and duration of drought due to anthropogenic ...
T. Ohlert +4 more
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Oxidation indexes in oils from some leguminous seeds from sonoran desert
Grasas y Aceites, 2001 The oxidation process of crude and refined oils from wild leguminous seeds: Prosopis juliflora (mezquite), Mimosa grahamii (gatuña), Acacia constricta, (vinorama) Olneya tesota, (palo fierro) Cercidium praecox (palo de brea) and Parkinsonia aculeata ...
M. Ortega-Nieblas +2 more
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Analysis of California surface temperature trends based on observations. [PDF]
, 2009 Analysis of California surface temperature based on observations has been conducted using United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations and Cooperative Weather (COOP) stations throughout California to understand spatial and temporal ...
Kessomkiat, Wittaya
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Sensitivity analysis of a land surface scheme using multicriteria methods [PDF]
, 1999 Attempts to model surface-atmosphere interactions with greater physical realism have resulted in complex land surface schemes (LSS) with large numbers of parameters.
Bastidas, LA +4 more
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