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Landscape Sustainability in a Sonoran Desert City

Cities and the Environment, 2008
The objective of this paper is to discuss concepts of landscape sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is situated in the greater Salt River Valley of the lower Sonoran Desert in the southwest United States.
Chris A. Martin
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Invasive buffelgrass detection using high‐resolution satellite and UAV imagery on Google Earth Engine

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Methods to detect and monitor the spread of invasive grasses are critical to avoid ecosystem transformations and large economic costs. The rapid spread of non‐native buffelgrass(Pennisetum ciliare) has intensified fire risk and is replacing fire ...
Kaitlyn Elkind, Temuulen T. Sankey, Seth M. Munson, Clare E. Aslan   +3 more
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Phenological Characterization of Desert Sky Island Vegetation Communities with Remotely Sensed and Climate Time Series Data

Remote Sensing, 2010
Climate change and variability are expected to impact the synchronicity and interactions between the Sonoran Desert and the forested sky islands which represent steep biological and environmental gradients.
Stuart E. Marsh, Grant M. Casady, Jennifer E. Davison, Willem J.D. van Leeuwen   +3 more
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The Hexane Fraction of A Gray Induces p21-Mediated Antiproliferative and Proapoptotic Effects in Human Cancer–Derived Cell Lines

Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2017
Bursera microphylla (BM), one of the common elephant trees, is widely distributed in the Sonoran desert in Mexico. The Seri ethnic group in the Sonoran desert uses BM as an anti-inflammatory and painkiller drug for the treatment of sore throat, herpes ...
Sabrina Adorisio PhD, Alessandra Fierabracci MD, PhD, Giulia Gigliarelli PhD, Isabella Muscari PhD, Lorenza Cannarile PhD, Anna Marina Liberati MD, Maria Carla Marcotullio PhD, Carlo Riccardi MD, PhD, Massimo Curini PhD, Ramon Enrique Robles Zepeda PhD, Domenico V. Delfino MD, PhD   +10 more
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Root microbiome diversity and structure of the Sonoran desert buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare L.). [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Jara-Servin A, Silva A, Barajas H, Cruz-Ortega R, Tinoco-Ojanguren C, Alcaraz LD.   +5 more
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Leggere un’onda: la migrazione nel Mediterraneo tra deterrenza, ambiente e oblio - Reading a Wave: Migration in the Mediterranean between Deterrence, Environment, and Oblivion

EtnoAntropologia
Recent attention to climate change has highlighted its role in worsening living conditions and affecting migration toward Europe. At the same time, environmental and atmospheric conditions also obstruct these journeys, particularly where states exploit ...
Nives Ladina
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Microstructure and Hydrophobicity of the External Surface of a Sonoran Desert Beetle. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel), 2022
Tellechea-Robles LE, Méndez-Alonzo R, Molina-Freaner FE, Maldonado A.   +3 more
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Does Buffelgrass Have a Long Permanence in an Established Pasture? An Analysis of the Population Dynamics of This Exotic Grass in Central Sonora, Mexico

Ecologies
The introduction of exotic forage species to new environments for livestock purposes is a common practice to increase productivity. Unfortunately, the population dynamics of introduced species as well as that of native species that persist in grasslands ...
Daniel Morales-Romero, Rosa María Angulo-Cota, Carmen Isela Ortega-Rosas, Octavio Cota-Arriola, Francisco Molina-Freaner   +4 more
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Spatial cover and carbon fluxes of urbanized Sonoran Desert biological soil crusts. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Gallas G, Pavao-Zuckerman M.
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Wetland islands in the desert: floristic composition and regional differentiation across arid palm groves of the Baja California Peninsula and southern California

Botan‪ical Sciences
Background: In arid regions, palm groves function as wetland refugia, supporting hydrophytic plant communities under extreme climatic constraints. Despite their ecological significance, the regional patterns of these assemblages remain poorly understood.
Pedro P. Garcillán, Jon P. Rebman, Constanza Danaee Jiménez-Guevara   +2 more
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