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Data from: Spatially consistent high-resolution land surface temperature mosaics for thermophysical mapping of the Mojave Desert
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Data from: Conservation planning for offsetting the impacts of development: a case study of biodiversity and renewable energy in the Mojave Desert
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Data from: A 37-year experimental study of effects of structural alterations on a shrub community in the Mojave Desert, California
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Data from: Evolutionary hotspots in the Mojave Desert
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Data from: The utility of environmental DNA from sediment and water samples for recovery of observed plant and animal species from four Mojave Desert springs
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Fig. 1 in A New Genus and Species of the Tribe Attagenini (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Mojave Desert of California
Fig. 1. Apphianus yuccae, dorsal aspect.
Cohen and Schenk (2021) Data from: Investigating phylogenetic placement and species-level relationships in a recent radiation of Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae) from the Mojave Desert
<p>Understanding species level relationships is a central goal in systematic botany; however complexes of closely related and morphologically similar species often pose considerable challenges to that goal. The North American west is home to many notable genera that notoriously have difficult species complexes (e.g., <i>Astragalus</i>, <i>Eriogonum</i>, <i>Penstemon</i>). <i>Mentzelia </i>section <i>Bartonia </i>(Loasaceae)<i> </i>is a recently evolved and diverse clade that occurs across the North American west. Phylogenetic studies have resolved many relationships, but the relationships within a species complex of perennial, subshrub species that occurs in the Mojave Desert, Great Basin, and Colorado Plateau remains elusive. This arid-adapted clade, which is referred to as the Mojave clade, has significant conservation implications, due to three narrowly endemic species: <i>Mentzelia polita</i> and <i>Mentzelia tiehmii </i>are state listed, and <i>Mentzelia leucophylla</i> is federally listed. Species relationships within the Mojave clade are not fully understood. Populations of <i>Mentzelia oreophila </i>from California and Nevada, for example, are not monophyletic. We generated restriction site associated DNA sequence data (RADSeq) to address evolutionary relationships in the Mojave clade. Our results corroborated previous studies in continued recognition of <i>Mentzelia polita</i>, <i>Mentzelia leucophylla</i>, and<i> Mentzelia tiehmii</i>; however, <i>Mentzelia oreophila </i>was recovered in three clades that includes a California clade, a Nevada clade, and one with <i>Mentzelia puberula</i>. Incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization might have generated conflicting phylogenetic signal between <i>Mentzelia oreophila </i>and <i>Mentzelia puberula</i>. Increasing population level sampling will aid in species delimitation and further help to understand how gene flow and/or hybridization is influencing population level dynamics in the Mojave Desert.</p>
Low elevation species richness and biodiversity in the eastern Mojave desert, Clark County
<p>Global loss of biodiversity is a well-known concern for conservationists and managers, but detailed spatial maps of local biodiversity for use by local managers are often lacking. We used a suite of existing species distribution models to calculate spatial variation in low-elevation species richness across Clark County, Nevada, USA, comprising much of the eastern Mojave Desert. We then used a macroecological model to estimate true latent low-elevation biodiversity across the county, correcting for potential taxonomic bias in the estimates of species richness. We found that species richness and biodiversity tended to be higher along the Muddy and Virgin rivers and in the Las Vegas valley. Biodiversity was positively associated with flat, rocky landforms, low elevation, late seasonal greenup, and lower differences between winter and summer temperatures. We present a brief example for local managers to apply the new publicly available low-elevation species richness and biodiversity spatial layers.</p>
Cohen and Schenk (2021) Data from: Investigating phylogenetic placement and species-level relationships in a recent radiation of Mentzelia section Bartonia (Loasaceae) from the Mojave Desert
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Low elevation species richness and biodiversity in the eastern Mojave desert, Clark County
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Data from: Invertebrate community response to fire and rodent activity in the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts
Recent increases in the frequency and size of desert wildfires bring into question the impacts of fire on desert invertebrate communities. Furthermore, consumer communities can strongly impact invertebrates through predation and top‐down effects on plant community assembly. We experimentally applied burn and rodent exclusion treatments in a full factorial design at sites in both the Mojave and Great Basin deserts to examine the impact that fire and rodent consumers have on invertebrate communities. Pitfall traps were used to survey invertebrates from April through September 2016 to determine changes in abundance, richness, and diversity of invertebrate communities in response to fire and rodent treatments. Generally speaking, rodent exclusion had very little effect on invertebrate abundance or ant abundance, richness or diversity. The one exception was ant abundance, which was higher in rodent access plots than in rodent exclusion plots in June 2016, but only at the Great Basin site. Fire had little effect on the abundances of invertebrate groups at either desert site, with the exception of a negative effect on flying‐forager abundance at our Great Basin site. However, fire reduced ant species richness and Shannon's diversity at both desert sites. Fire did appear to indirectly affect ant community composition by altering plant community composition. Structural equation models suggest that fire increased invasive plant cover, which negatively impacted ant species richness and Shannon's diversity, a pattern that was consistent at both desert sites. These results suggest that invertebrate communities demonstrate some resilience to fire and invasions but increasing fire and spread of invasive due to invasive grass fire cycles may put increasing pressure on the stability of invertebrate communities.
Data from: Invertebrate community response to fire and rodent activity in the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts
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