Patterns of Spider Distribution (Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch)) in Desert Grassland and Recent Lava Bed Habitats, South-Central New Mexico

10.2307/3404 ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Riechert ◽  
William G. Reeder ◽  
Timothy A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Desert Grassland ◽  
South Central ◽  
Agelenopsis Aperta

Biogeographic Implications of a Packrat Midden Sequence from the Sacramento Mountains, South-Central New Mexico

1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Van Devender ◽  
Julio L. Betancourt ◽  
Mark Wimberly
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Pinus Ponderosa ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Desert Grassland ◽  
Creosote Bush ◽  
Oak Woodland ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Sacramento Mountains ◽  
South Central

Thirteen packrat (Neotoma spp.) and two porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) middens from 1555 to 1690 m elevation from the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, provide an 18,000-yr vegetation record in the northern Chiuahuan Desert. The vegetation sequence is a mesic, Wisconsin fullglacial (18,000–16,000 yr B.P.) pinyon-juniper-oak woodland; a xeric, early Holocene (ca. 11,000–8000 yr B.P.) juniper-oak woodland; a middle Holocene (ca. 8000-4000 yr B.P.) desert-grassland; and a late Holocene (ca. 4000 yr B.P. to present) Chihuahuan desertscrub. The frequency of spring freezes and summer droughts in the late Wisconsin probably set the northern limits of Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma at about 34°N, or 6° south of today's limit. Rising summer tempratures in the early Holocene eliminated pinyon and other mesic woodland plants from the desert lowlands and allowed the woodland to move upslope. At this time pinyon-juniper woodland and pine forest dominated by Pinus ponderosa probably began their spectacular Holocene expansions to the north. Continued warming in the middle Holocene led to very warm summers with strong monsoons, relatively dry, cold winters, and widespread desert-grasslands. Desertscrub communities in the northern Chihuahuan Desert did not develop until the late Holocene when the biseasonal rainfall shifted slightly back toward the winter, catastrophic winter freezes decreased, and droughts in all seasons increased. The creosote bush desertscrub corridor across the Continental Divide between the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts was probably connected for the first time since the last interglaciation.

scholarly journals Plant Distribution Surrounding Rocky Mountain Pinyon Pine and Oneseed Juniper in South-Central New Mexico

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Armentrout ◽  
Rex D. Pieper
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
South Central ◽  
Pinyon Pine

scholarly journals Long-Term Effects of a Summer Fire on Desert Grassland Plant Demographics in New Mexico

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Parmenter
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Desert Grassland ◽  
Long Term Effects

Sierraceratops turneri, a new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Hall Lake Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central New Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 105034
Author(s):  
Sebastian G. Dalman ◽  
Spencer G. Lucas ◽  
Steven E. Jasinski ◽  
Nicholas R. Longrich
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
South Central ◽  
Lake Formation

Interspecific Cooperative Nesting between Barn Swallows and Say's Phoebes in South-Central New Mexico

The Auk ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
South Central ◽  
Barn Swallows
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