The Southwestern Naturalist
Contents 44(3)     September 1999


 

Feature Articles


Genetic diversity in two rare milkweeds from the southwestern United States.

James P. Therrien

Decomposition and nitrogen release from foliage of cottonwood (Populus deltoides) and Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) in a riparian ecosystem.

Stacey B. Simons and T. R. Seastedt

Vegetative change on South Padre Island, Texas, over twenty years and evaluation of multispectral videography in determining vegetative cover and species identity.

Robert I. Lonard, Frank W. Judd, James H. Everitt, David E. Escobar, Mario A. Alaniz, Isabel Cavazos III, and M. R. Davis

Dormancy-breaking and germination requirements in seeds of the summer annual Palafoxia callosa (Asteraceae) from central Texas.

Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, and O. W. Van Auken

Ant communities in flooded and unflooded riparian forest of the middle Rio Grande.

Elizabeth R. Milford

Effects of red shiner (Cyprinella lutrensis) on Red River pupfish (Cyprinodon rubrofluviatilis).

Keith B. Gido, Jacob F. Schaefer, Kirstin Work, Philip W. Liensch, Edie Marsh-Matthews, and William J. Matthews

Movements and reproduction of hardhead and Sacramento squawfish in a small California stream.

Gerold C. Grant and Paul E. Maslin

Abundance and habitat associations of elf owls and western screech-owls in the Sonoran Desert.

Paul C. Hardy, Michael L. Morrison, and Robert X. Barry

Contributions to the knowledge of the mammals of Jujuy Province, Argentina.

M. Monica Diaz and Rubén M. Barquez

Occurrence of Sorex arizonae and other shrews (Insectivora) in southern Arizona.

Lee H. Simons and William E. Van Pelt

First record of Lasiurus xanthinus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Texas.

Jana Higginbotham, Loren K. Ammerman, and Michael T. Dixon

Movements and home range of salt marsh harvest mice.

Michael A. Bias and Michael L. Morrison

Frequency of birth and lambing sites of a small population of mountain sheep.

Richard C. Etchberger and Paul R. Krausman

Bison performance and productivity on tallgrass prairie.

E. Gene Towne

Demographic responses of kit foxes to supplemental feeding.

Gregory D. Warrick, Jerry H. Scrivner, and Thomas P. O'Farrell

Notes


Dynamics of species richness and abundance in a montane community of butterflies in southern New Mexico.

Stephen B. Hager and Angela D. Stafford

Use of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nest-sites by tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) for oviposition and thermoregulation in a temperate grassland.

Nancy E. McIntyre

Western harvester ants prefer nest sites near roads and trails.

Anthony C. Terranella, Lisa Ganz, and James J. Ebersole

Evidence of reproduction by humpback chub in a warm spring of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Richard A. Valdez and William J. Masslich

Captures of striped bass in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Richard A. Valdez and William C. Liebfried

Predation by nonnative fish on native fishes in the San Juan River, New Mexico and Utah.

W. Howard Brandenburg and Keith B. Gido

Distribution of Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) in southern Belize.

Steven G. Platt, J. B. Thorbjarnarson, and Thomas R. Rainwater

Additional records of bats from the middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico.

Ernest W. Valdez, James N. Stuart, and Michael A. Bogan

Status of the North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) in Mexico.

Rurik List, Gerardo Ceballos, and Jesús Pacheco

The fringed myotis, Myotis thysanodes (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Arnulfo Moreno-Valdez

Trail marking by coyotes, Canis latrans.

Bayard H. Brattstrom

Range extensions of the woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) and two other species in northwestern Oklahoma.

Thomas W. Haner, Ronald W. Farrar, and Gary D. Schnell

Tree sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) in Nicaragua and Honduras, Central America.

Timothy J. McCarthy, David L. Anderson, and Gustavo A. Cruz D

Utilization of cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonata) nests in west Texas by cave myotis (Myotis velifer).

Christopher M. Ritzi

Announcements

Cover: Logo of the 45th Annual Meeting of The Southwestern Association of Naturalists by Cheryl Parmenter, Museum of Southwestern Biology and Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.



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