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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Chihuahuan desert"”.
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Spatial and Temporal Patterns in a Chihuahuan Desert Fish Assemblage
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Mammalian herbivores reinforce ecological state transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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A systematic study of indehiscent-fruited yuccas in the Chihuahuan Desert
… the group within an ecological unit, namely, the Chihuahuan Desert. Eight taxa of indehiscent-fruited yuccas occur wholly or in part in this area. Of these, six appear as "pairs" that closely resemble each other and possess complimentary ranges (either northsouth or east-west). Data and voucher …
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Fire effects on small mammals and vegetation of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
The role of fire in the Northern Chihuahuan Desen has been of great interest and also heavily debated for 40 years. However, few replicated studies have documented the changes brought about by fire. .My study documented the short term effects of fire on a creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) dominated …
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Small mammal and herpetofauna communities and habitat associations in foothills of the Chihuahuan Desert
… Mountains near the northern limit of the Chihuahuan Desert. Sampled habitats included arroyos and adjacent uplands under 3 conditions of physiography: upper, middle, and lower. Sampling was conducted during late spring and early fall, 1993-94. Eighteen species of heteromyid and murid …
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Characterization and Delineation of Karst Geohazards Along RM652 Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Culberson County, Texas
… Permian Basin and a northern extension of the Chihuahuan Desert. The major evaporite unit within the Delaware Basin is the Castile Formation, which consists of gypsum/anhydrite and is highly susceptible to dissolution and karsting. Manifestations of karst within the Castile outcrop are abundant …
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Comidas de la Tierra: an ethnoarchaeology of earth ovens
… in three modern uses of earth ovens in the Chihuahuan Desert. The relevance of these ethnoarchaeological case-studies, beyond their utility to archaeologists interpreting cooking features, is to demonstrate how modern cooking traditions may relate to the evolution of subsistence strategies …
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Rapid Quantitative Assessment to Assist in Identification of Imperiled Fishes
… 50 species of fishes within the Edwards Plateau, Chihuahuan Desert, and South Texas Plains ecoregions of Texas. The 50 species represented 12 families of fishes and consisted of narrowly distributed fishes (i.e., occurring in one drainage) and widely-distributed fishes (i.e., occurring in up to …
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Pattern and process at a desert grassland-shrubland ecotone
… past century, shrub encroachment has occurred in desert grasslands all over the American Southwest. In the Northern Chihuahuan desert, most encroachment was due to creosotebush (Larrea tridentata [Sessé & Moc. ex DC.] Coville) expanding into black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda [Torr.] Torr.) dominated …
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Evaluation of landscape level habitat characteristics of golden eagle habitat in Northwestern Mexico
… in Chihuahua State. I surveyed a portion of Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion in Mexico to locate golden eagle territories during 2009 and 2010. I located 30 golden eagle nesting territories and found similar composition of cover type, vegetation structure and prey indices between the territory …
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Dryland state transitions, trophic interactions, and the restoration of a keystone species
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms