Desert Climate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Aridity weakens population-level effects of multiple species interactions on Hibiscus meyeri . 
  • Dehydration and persistence hunting in Homo erectus. 
  • Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds? 
  • Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development 
  • Incidence and biomarkers of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and neonatal loss during an environmental stressor: Implications for female reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding meerkat. 
  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. 
  • Modifying the ‘pulse-reserve’ paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water and plant responses 
  • Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity. 
  • Pharmaceutical services required during setup of an Army combat support hospital. 
  • Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability. 
  • Plant responses to precipitation in desert ecosystems: integrating functional types, pulses, thresholds, and delays 
  • Water subsidies from mountains to deserts: their role in sustaining groundwater-fed oases in a sandy landscape. 
  • Wetlands as an alternative stable state in desert streams. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Reynolds, James F., Professor Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Policy