Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

This paper describes an interdisciplinary study of the habitat requirements of threatened desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) on eight 225-ha study plots in a 14 000 ha study area near the southern ...

There are a lot of ways, it turns out, to cope with unrelenting desert heat. Rattlesnakes, jackrabbits, and many other desert-dwelling mammals and reptiles are crepuscular, meaning they are most ...

Understanding community assembly is a fundamental goal of ecology and evolutionary biology, because it provides insight into how a given landscape changes in a synergistic fashion. With the current ...

What role do deserts play in the world’s ecosystems? The desert habitat, it is a land of extremes: hot days, cold nights. But it is also home to a rich variety of plants and animals. How do they all ...

It seemed like a reasonable question. “What makes a seemingly rational person spend several days sitting in sizzling desert heat looking for wild animals that may or may not show up?” Patrick ...

What is a warm desert and what is a cold desert? Deserts are an important habitat. Find out how plants and animals survive in a land of extremes.

A persistent question among urban ecology researchers has been the long-term impact of urbanization on bird species biodiversity. Specifically, they wonder whether the portions of cities with higher ...

Keeper Emily Kornmuller squirts several blobs of nontoxic paint on a blank canvas — preparing it for none other than two adorable javelinas at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. She straps the canvas ...

There are few places that will take in injured or abandoned wild animals in the Las Vegas Valley. Because wild animals can be hostile to humans and carry parasites and other diseases that may be ...