News tagged with sonoran desert
Genes culled from desert soils suggest potential medical resource
Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Warming climate chills Sonoran Desert's spring flowers
Global warming is giving a boost to Sonoran Desert plants that have an edge during cold weather, according to new research.
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Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands
As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis velutina, and other woody shrubs, a team of University ...
Mar 18, 2012 |
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Compromises between quantity and quality common in animals: do the same holds for plants, flowers?
Most creatures face compromises when they reproduce — the more energy they devote to having lots of babies, the less they can invest in each one. But do the same tradeoffs hold true for plants? Biologists ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Picture book portrays a 'hoppy' future for endangered frogs
Move over Kermit, there's a native frog rising in the West.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20
(AP) -- Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to create self-sustaining ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Size matters in lizard research
(PhysOrg.com) -- For a species whose name suggests otherwise, Gila monsters are actually quite shy. Their size and bite are the only monstrous things about these animals, which are the second-largest and one ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Planet Earth's playhouse
At Biosphere 2, scientists can move things around, control the climate, turn off certain parameters and run others full tilt.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Wild cats roam the Tucson Mountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, mountain lions and bobcats have been photographed as part of an in-depth monitoring study in the Tucson Mountains, a small island of habitat facing increasing segregation ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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SEINet offers desert plant guide online
Imagine that you're going to take a hike in the Superstition Mountains. You love plants, and are always curious about the various bushes, trees and flowers that you encounter in the desert.
Sep 10, 2010 |
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New research will unravel Arizona's prehistoric puzzle of the Hohokam ceramic industry
Can a manufacturing industry purr along without a class system of managers and workers? That's part of a longtime mystery that may soon be solved: How did a prehistoric, egalitarian people called the Hohokam produce large ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Bald eagles: an amazing comeback story
On a clear, cool fall morning, a bald eagle swoops in from its perch on a cliff overlooking Trinity Lake in Northern California.
Mar 17, 2010 |
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