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A 30-year chronosequence of burned areas in Arizona: effects of wildfires on vegetation in Sonoran Desert Tortoise ( Gopherus morafkai ) habitats

scholarly article by Daniel F. Shryock et al published 2015 in Open-File Report

A range‐wide model of contemporary, omnidirectional connectivity for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise

scientific article published in 2019

Arizona hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. arizonicus)—A systematic data assessment in support of recovery

scientific article published in 2019

Associating sex-biased and seasonal behaviour with contact patterns and transmission risk in Gopherus agassizii

article

Black-Tailed and White-Tailed Jackrabbits in the American West: History, Ecology, Ecological Significance, and Survey Methods

scientific article published in October 2015

Borreliosis Transmission from Ticks Associated with Desert Tortoise Burrows: Examples of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in the Mojave Desert

scientific article

Common Raven (Corvus corax) kleptoparasitism at a Golden Eagle (Aquila chyrsaetos) nest in southern Nevada

scientific article published in March 2017

Comparative phylogeography of a coevolved community: concerted population expansions in Joshua trees and four yucca moths

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Comparative phylogeography reveals deep lineages and regional evolutionary hotspots in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts

article

Comparison of Effects of Humans Versus Wildlife-Detector Dogs

scientific article published in December 2008

Complex immune responses and molecular reactions to pathogens and disease in a desert reptile (Gopherus agassizii )

article

Connectivity of Mojave Desert tortoise populations—Management implications for maintaining a viable recovery network

scientific article

Contrasting Long-Term Survival of Two Outplanted Mojave Desert Perennials for Post-Fire Revegetation

Coupling gene-based and classic veterinary diagnostics improves interpretation of health and immune function in the Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii).

scientific article

Desert Fires Fueled by Native Annual Forbs: Effects of Fire on Communities of Plants and Birds in the Lower Sonoran Desert of Arizona

scientific article published in June 2013

Desert Tortoise Hibernation: Temperatures, Timing, and Environment

scientific article published in May 2007

Desert tortoise use of burned habitat in the Eastern Mojave desert

scientific article published in April 2015

Desert wildfire and severe drought diminish survivorship of the long‐lived Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 22, 2010

Development of a Genotyping Protocol for Mojave Desert Tortoise Scat

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Direct and indirect effects of environmental variability on growth and survivorship of pre-reproductive Joshua trees, Yucca brevifolia Engelm. (Agavaceae).

scientific article

Disease dynamics during wildlife translocations: disruptions to the host population and potential consequences for transmission in desert tortoise contact networks

article

Divergence in an obligate mutualism is not explained by divergent climatic factors

scientific article published in August 2009

Drawing a line in the sand: Effectiveness of off-highway vehicle management in California's Sonoran desert

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Effects Of Desert Wildfires On Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) And Other Small Vertebrates

scientific article published in March 2003

Effects of subsidized predators, resource variability, and human population density on desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert, USA

scientific article published in 2010

Estimating wildfire risk on a Mojave Desert landscape using remote sensing and field sampling

scientific article published in 2013

Evolutionary Hotspots in the Mojave Desert

article

Genes in space: what Mojave desert tortoise genetics can tell us about landscape connectivity

scientific article published on 8 February 2020

Habitat drives dispersal and survival of translocated juvenile desert tortoises

scientific article published in 2016

Harnessing landscape genomics to identify future-climate resilient genotypes in a desert annual

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Host contact and shedding patterns clarify variation in pathogen exposure and transmission in threatened tortoise Gopherus agassizii: implications for disease modelling and management

scientific article

Immune and sex-biased gene expression in the threatened Mojave desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Impacts of climate change and renewable energy development on habitat of an endemic squirrel, Xerospermophilus mohavensis , in the Mojave Desert, USA

scientific article published in August 2016

Impacts of upper respiratory tract disease on olfactory behavior of the Mojave desert tortoise

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Inferring social structure and its drivers from refuge use in the desert tortoise, a relatively solitary species

article

Integrating Gene Transcription-Based Biomarkers to Understand Desert Tortoise and Ecosystem Health

scientific article

Is there room for all of us? Renewable energy and Xerospermophilus mohavensis

scientific article published in 2013

Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) seeds are dispersed by seed-caching rodents

scientific article published in 2006

Landscape genetic approaches to guide native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Landscape genomics of Sphaeralcea ambigua in the Mojave Desert: a multivariate, spatially-explicit approach to guide ecological restoration

Life-history traits predict perennial species response to fire in a desert ecosystem

scientific article

Linking behavioral states to landscape features for improved conservation management

scientific article

Local niche differences predict genotype associations in sister taxa of desert tortoise

scientific article published on 3 June 2019

Mapping habitat for multiple species in the Desert Southwest

article

Modeling habitat of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mojave and parts of the Sonoran Deserts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona

scholarly article

Monitoring Of Ecosystem Dynamics In The Mojave Desert: The Beatley Permanent Plots

scientific article published in 2001

Monitoring ecosystem quality and function in arid settings of the Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2008

Multiscale connectivity and graph theory highlight critical areas for conservation under climate change

scientific article

Negative impacts of invasive plants on conservation of sensitive desert wildlife

scientific article published in October 2016

Perennial vegetation data from permanent plots on the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

scholarly article

Population viability of Pediocactus bradyi (Cactaceae) in a changing climate

scientific article

Priority Species Lists to Restore Desert Tortoise and Pollinator Habitats in Mojave Desert Shrublands

scientific article

Quantifying development to inform management of Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoise habitat in the American southwest

scientific article published on 6 August 2020

SPATIAL DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS TO INFORM CONSERVATION PLANNING OF GOLDEN EAGLES IN RENEWABLE ENERGY LANDSCAPES

Seed Menus: An integrated decision‐support framework for native plant restoration in the Mojave Desert

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Seed banks in a degraded desert shrubland: Influence of soil surface condition and harvester ant activity on seed abundance

scientific article published in October 2009

Seed dispersal and seed fate in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia)

scientific article published in June 2012

Seedling Ecology and Restoration of Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) in the Mojave Desert, United States

scientific article published in 2014

Severe mortality of a population of threatened Agassiz’s desert tortoises: the American badger as a potential predator

scientific article published in 2015

Short seed longevity, variable germination conditions, and infrequent establishment events provide a narrow window for Yucca brevifolia (Agavaceae) recruitment ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Short-term soil inorganic N pulse after experimental fire alters invasive and native annual plant production in a Mojave Desert shrubland

scientific article

Spatial decision-support tools to guide restoration and seed-sourcing in the Desert Southwest

scientific article published in 2018

Spatially Consistent High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature Mosaics for Thermophysical Mapping of the Mojave Desert

scholarly article by Scott A. Nowicki et al published 13 June 2019 in Sensors

Spatially explicit decision support for selecting translocation areas for Mojave desert tortoises

scientific article published on 25 January 2008

Supplementing Seed Banks to Rehabilitate Disturbed Mojave Desert Shrublands: Where Do All the Seeds Go?

scientific article published on 21 October 2010

Testing Taxon Tenacity of Tortoises: evidence for a geographical selection gradient at a secondary contact zone

scientific article

The importance of physiological ecology in conservation biology

scientific article published on 20 October 2006

The role of fire on soil mounds and surface roughness in the Mojave Desert

scientific article published in 2012

The slow dynamics of mycoplasma infections in a tortoise host reveal heterogeneity pertinent to pathogen transmission and monitoring

article

Topography and climate are more important drivers of long-term, post-fire vegetation assembly than time-since-fire in the Sonoran Desert, US

Using movement to inform conservation corridor design for Mojave desert tortoise

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Using remotely sensed data to map Joshua Tree distributions at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, 2018

scientific article published in 2020

What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants

scientific article published on 10 May 2022

‘Unscrambling’ the drivers of egg production in Agassiz’s desert tortoise: climate and individual attributes predict reproductive output

scientific article

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