scholarly journals An overview of the mammals of the Gila region, New Mexico

Therya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Amanda K. Jones ◽  
Schuyler W. Liphardt ◽  
Jonathan L. Dunnum
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
The United States ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Sky Islands ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Landscape Complexity ◽  
Biogeographic History ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome B ◽  
History Of

A study of the mammals of the Gila region of New Mexico was conducted from 2012 through 2020, with 2,919 voucher specimens collected through fieldwork and collaborations with commercial trappers, in addition to data from camera traps, review of major holdings at 46 museums (n = 12,505 georeferenced specimens), and literature review.  Specimens cover a 170-year span, dating back to 1850 and were unevenly distributed spatially and temporally across the Gila region.  Most areas were very poorly represented and when summed across all mammal species, ranged from 0.02 to 3.7 specimens per km2.  The survey documented 108 species (104 now extant) for the region.  High species richness, greater than that reported for 38 states in the United States, is likely due to the juxtaposition of multiple biomes in the Gila, including the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Madre Occidental, and nearby “sky islands’’ of the Southwest.  Two species, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae and Zapus luteus, are documented for the first time from the study area.  Expansions of the known range of these species, and Sciurus arizonensis are described from specimen and camera data.  Preliminary phylogeographic studies of four species (Notiosorex crawfordi, Neotoma albigula, Perognathus flavus, and Thomomys bottae) using the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene reveal the dynamic biogeographic history of the region and reinforce how landscape complexity and climate change have jointly contributed to diversification and thus high mammalian diversity in the region.

Mary of Agreda and the Southwest United States

1953 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Donahue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Southwest United States ◽  
Strange Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
Franciscan Missions ◽  
Missionary Church

IN 1630 FRAY ALONSO DE BENAVIDES, the former superior of the Franciscan missions in New Mexico, returned to Spain and wrote for Philip IV a report on the activities of the missionaries of his custodia. In this report is found one of the most interesting accounts in the whole history of the missionary Church in America. It is the strange story of the miraculous conversion of the Jumano Indians and of other tribes in the Southwest of the United States by a Spanish nun, Sor María de Jesús de Agreda. In 1622 Fray Alonso de Benavides had come to the missions of New Mexico with a large group of Franciscans. Being their superior, he assigned them to various missions. One of the group, Fray Juan de Salas, he sent to work among the Indians of Isleta near present-day Albuquerque.

scholarly journals Guns and the Limits of Numeracy: Review of How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis, by William Briggs.

Numeracy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Best
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Gun Policy ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
History Of

William Briggs. 2017. How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis; (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press). Paperback: ISBN 978-0-8263-5813-4. E-book ISBN 978-0-8263-5814-1. Mathematician William Briggs (co-author of the well-regarded Understanding and Using Mathematics) has written a remarkably thorough and evenhanded analysis of gun policy in the United States that draws upon the work of historians, legal scholars, social scientists, and advocates. He gives respectful hearings to claims about the importance of both gun rights and gun control. The breadth of his coverage makes it almost certain that any reader will discover new angles for thinking about gun issues.

These People Have Always Been a Republic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice S. Crandall
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall’s sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power.  Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.

The King of Kings

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-44
Author(s):  
Lorena Oropeza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bible College ◽  
Assembly Of God ◽  
Migrant Farmworker ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bible School

Born in 1926 outside of San Antonio, Texas, to a migrant farmworker family, Reies López Tijerina’s earliest years were defined by severe poverty and intense religiosity. Nevertheless, starting as a boy, Tijerina saw himself as destined by God for greatness. After attending a Pentecostal Bible college, he spent five years as an Assembly of God minister before becoming an itinerant preacher. As a preacher, he crisscrossed the United States, including several trips through northern New Mexico, which introduced him to the sordid history of land dispossession in the region. His marriage to a fellow Bible school student, Mary Escobar, produced an ever-growing family that joined him in his constant travels and life of precarity. In 1954, a collection of his sermons condemned the United States and its citizens for licentiousness and greed.

scholarly journals Cicinnus chambersi: a new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from southeastern Arizona, USA

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Ryan A. St Laurent ◽  
Lawrence E. Reeves ◽  
Akito Y. Kawahara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Sky Islands ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
A New Species

A new species of cicinnine Mimallonidae, Cicinnus chambersisp. nov., is described from the Sky Islands Region of southern Arizona, USA. The new species is closely related to C. mexicana (Druce), type locality Veracruz, Mexico, based on morphology and genetics. The other Cicinnus species known from the United States, the common C. melsheimeri (type locality Pennsylvania, USA) is morphologically and genetically distinct from both C. chambersi and C. mexicana. The new species is compared to C. mexicana and C. melsheimeri, as well as other Mexican Cicinnus. The life history of C. chambersi is unknown, but its description should facilitate future studies on this rarely reported North American mimallonid, a species which may have only recently become established in the United States. Cicinnus chambersi is the fifth known Mimallonidae species from the United States, and the first described from the country in nearly half a century.

NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE WHARF BORER, NACERDES MELANURA (COLEOPTERA: OEDEMERIDAE), IN NEWFOUNDLAND

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray F. Morris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Life History ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The wharf borer, Nacerdes melanura (L.) (Fig. I), is widely distributed throughout the world. It has been recorded in England, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany. Siberia, Japan, and the Bahama Islands (Balch 1937). Walker (1936) reported N. melanura from Syria, Shanghai, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, and the United States. In the United States, it has been found in most coastal states, and also in Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico. In Canada, it is known to occur in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The life history of the wharf borer in Canada has been outlined in detail by Balch (1937) and Spencer (1957).

The Great Basin

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Smoak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Spanish Colonization ◽  
Mormon Church

The Native peoples of the Great Basin live on some of the most arid and sparsely populated lands in the United States. The unforgiving basin environment has long influenced scholarly and popular perceptions of Great Basin Indians. This chapter is intended to historicize peoples who have too been naturalized. Spanish colonization in New Mexico transformed Native life in the Great Basin before the arrival of permanent Euro-American settlement. The subsequent conquest of the Great Basin took place largely through the actions of nonstate power interests—miners, overland emigrants, and the Mormon Church. The incorporation of wage labor was a common adaptation to conquest. Because many basin peoples lacked established treaty rights and/or reservation land bases, they struggled throughout the course of the twentieth century to reestablish sovereignty over their homelands.

Time asymmetry in the palaeobiogeographic history of species

2009 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nieves Lopez-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Area ◽  
Dissipative Structures ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Symmetric Model ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Time Asymmetry ◽  
Centre Of Origin ◽  
Extinction Process ◽  
Biogeographic History ◽  
History Of

Abstract The difficulties and hindrances of palaeobiogeography and historical biogeography in its long, sterile search for centres of origin or ancestral areas of species, leading some authors to withdraw the centre-of-origin as a non-scientific concept, are here considered as signals and not artefacts for the recognition of patterns in the biogeographic history of lineages. The time-symmetric model, which assumes gradual origination and extinction processes of a species, is here questioned and an alternative time-asymmetric model is proposed. The origination and expansion processes of a species history would be much faster and more unpredictable than the often gradual, long, predictable extinction process marked by previous signals of geographic area contraction. Monitored biological invasions, plankton blooms and episodes of coordinated migrations illustrate the fast expansion of novel species behaving as dissipative structures. The asymmetric biogeographic model is tested through palaeobiogeographic data on Old World mammal species and by the consistent preference of biostratigraphers for species appearance against species extinction as time-marker bioevents. Time-asymmetry is a common phenomenon of nature, indicating that asymmetry could well be a general property of Time itself.

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