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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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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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Tearing the Land From Underfoot: Environmental Racism at the Northern French Border
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Much attention has been devoted to the infliction of hostile environments on people on the move in political and discursive terms. However, less attention has been paid to the cultivation of physically hostile environments where they dwell. Building on critical border and environmental justice studies, this article examines how the natural ...
Maria Hagan
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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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Characteristics of Sonoran Desert Microbursts
Weather and Forecasting, 2011 Abstract During the 2008 North American monsoon season, 140 microburst events were identified in Phoenix, Arizona, and the surrounding Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran microbursts were studied and examined for their frequency and characteristics, as observed from data collected from three Doppler radars and electrical power infrastructure ...
Katherine M. Willingham +3 more
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Climatic variation may affect plant‐pollinator interaction potential by shaping intra‐annual patterns of flowering and foraging, thereby altering the windows of temporal overlap between partners. We examined whether spatial variation in temperature and precipitation predicted plant‐pollinator interaction potential across a dryland ...
Elijah S. Hall +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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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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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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