Arbuscular‐mycorrhizal (AM) fungi stabilize the soil and enhance plant growth by alleviating
nutrient and drought stress. Their contributions to agriculture are well known, but their role in …

Restoration of highly eroded desert land was attempted in the southern Sonoran Desert that
had lost its natural capacity for self-revegetation. In six field experiments, the fields were …

Early survival and growth of some plants in arid environments depends on facilitation by a
nurse plant. Amelioration of soil temperature extremes through shading and accumulation of …

Se determinó la composición y estructura de la vegetación en tres sitios del estado de
Nuevo León: Los Ramones (S1), China (S2) y Linares (S3), los cuales forman parte del …

Resource‐island soils formed by some plants in arid lands are capable of supporting certain
plants that do not normally establish in surrounding areas free of vegetation. We determined …

Stenocereus gummosus is a columnar cactus endemic to the Sonoran desert that exhibits a
disjunct distribution: it is widely distributed in Baja California and restricted to a small coastal …

Background and aims A major problem in all restoration and rehabilitation projects is to
restore the function of the ecosystem. Nitrogen, next to water, is the most limiting factor for …

The decomposition of leaf litter for five dominant plant species of a desert scrub in Baja
California Sur, Mexico was investigated. We designed a factorial decomposition experiment …

We analysed 108 owl pellets of the barn owl, Tyto alba, collected daily in winter, from
December 1998 to March 1999. Pellet analysis gave us the opportunity to study variation in …

We investigated the relationships between predator avoidance behavior and predation risk
by comparing the wariness of iguanas (Ctenosaura hemilopha) belonging to an island …