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Beating the heat: ecology of desert bobcats
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background Relative to temperate regions, little is known about bobcats (Lynx rufus) in the Sonoran Desert portion of their range, in part due to the difficulty of sampling an elusive carnivore in harsh desert environments.
John Draper +2 more
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Endangered Species Research, 2023 We conducted population surveys for desert tortoises Gopherus agassizii at 2 nearby sites in the western Sonoran Desert of California, USA, from 2015-2018, during the driest ongoing 22 yr period (2000-2021) in the southwestern USA in over 1200 yr.
JE Lovich +5 more
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Disturbance legacies in arid environments shape recovery of former agricultural land
Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Increasingly, arid agricultural land is being permanently taken out of irrigated production due to more frequent drought, higher temperatures, and the overconsumption of groundwater, with important ramifications for ecological recovery.
Laurel M. Brigham +5 more
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Plants, 2023 The formation of the western North American drylands has led to the evolution of an astounding diversity of species well adapted for such communities.
Lucas C. Majure +4 more
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Novel Glomeromycotina–moss associations identified in California dryland biocrusts
New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 1, Page 151-163, July 2026.Summary Drylands, which comprise c. 45% of Earth's land area, host biological soil crusts (biocrusts): symbiotic communities of cyanobacteria, fungi, algae, lichen, and bryophytes that stabilize soil and support key ecosystem functions. Moss‐dominated biocrusts are particularly interesting due to their potential to illuminate ancient bryophyte–fungal ...
Kian H. Kelly +3 more
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.Abstract The highly variable spatial composition of desert soils remains a major source of uncertainty in estimates of dust radiative forcing. Existing soil mineralogy data sets used in climate models are limited by sparse ground observations and coarse spatial resolution.
Xuan Liu +6 more
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Resource availability and heterogeneity affect space use and resource selection of a feral ungulate
EcosphereAnimals adjust their habitat use patterns in response to changes in their physiological needs and environmental conditions. Understanding the mechanisms underlying resource selection and space use across time and space reveals effects of the environment ...
Saeideh Esmaeili +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2012 The morphological evolution of sexual traits informs studies of speciation due to the potential role of these characters in reproductive isolation. In the current study, we quantified and compared genitalic variation within the Drosophila mojavensis ...
Maxi Polihronakis Richmond +2 more
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Oil quality evaluation of eleven sonoran desert leguminous seeds
Grasas y Aceites, 1996 In order to generate information that lead to an efficient and diversifícate use of the natural resources that the Sonoran Desert offers, as it is the great variety of Leguminosae or Fabaceae plants, oils from seeds or Prosopis chilensis, Prosopis ...
M. Ortega-Nieblas +2 more
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