Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Tumacacori National Historical Park

Powell, Brian F.; Albrecht, Eric W.; Halvorson, W.L.; Schmidt, Cecilia A.; Anning, Pamela; Docherty, Kathleen

doi:10.3133/ofr20051142

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“…The purpose of this study was to complete basic inventories for vascular plants, birds, and mammals at Fort Bowie National Historic Site (NHS). This effort was part of a larger biological inventory of eight NFS units in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico (Davis and Halvorson 2000, 2005a. The results presented in this report supersede those reported by Powell et al ( , 2004Powell et al ( , and 2005b.…”

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Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Powell¹,

Schmidt²,

Halvorson³

2006

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This report, as others in this series, is dedicated to Eric's life and work; he was an extraordinary ecologist, community member, father, and partner. Eric was co-coordinator of the University of Arizona (UA) biological inventory and monitoring program from 2002 until his sudden and unexpected death on September 20, 2004. Eric was near completion of his MS degree in Wildlife Conservation from the UA, which was awarded posthumously in November 2004. In his last year, Eric spearheaded projects to investigate the efficiency of current monitoring programs; he was passionate about using the best available information to guide vertebrate monitoring efforts in the region. He is survived by his partner, Kathy Moore, and their two young children, Elizabeth and Zachary. We hope that the lives of his children will be enriched by Eric's hard work on behalf of the national parks in the Sonoran Desert Network. VIII Hubbard, Network Coordinator of the Sonoran Desert Network (SON) Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) program, has been a strong and convincing advocate for continuing the role of the USGS/UA Inventory program in the I&M program. Kathy Davis at Tuzigoot and Montezuma Castle national monuments played an instrumental role in this project by providing important early initiative. Larry Norris at the Desert Southwest CESU has provided strong support for our program and spent considerable time and effort providing clear and timely administrative assistance. Matt Goode, Don Swann, and Dale Turner provided much of the early planning for this project; we are indebted to their vision. Special thanks to Lisa Carder and Kathleen Docherty for their years of hard work on all aspects of the project. Eric Albrecht, to whom this report is dedicated, was an outstanding spokesperson and leader of the program; he was an invaluable member of the team and his contributions are sorely missed. We thank a core group of dedicated field biologists who collected a wealth of data at Fort Bowie

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Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Fort Bowie National Historic Site

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Halvorson³

2006

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“…Because this species list for the SCW was culled from the greater southwest regional database and was based on some potentially widespread vegetation units that exist throughout the southwest, the actual occurrence of many of the species in the watershed was uncertain. We therefore cross-validated the list with NPS inventory data from four National Park units in the area: Saguaro National Park (NP) West, Saguaro NP East, Tumácacori National Historical Park (NHP), and Coronado National Monument (NM) (Powell et al 2005(Powell et al , 2006Schmidt et al 2007). These NPS inventories were conducted within the full array of vegetation types present in the greater watershed, ranging from floodplain riparian types (Tumácacori NHP), desert grasslands and oak woodlands (Coronado NM), and the elevational transition-gradient from Sonoran Desert to mixed conifer (Saguaro NP).…”

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Biodiversity losses and conservation trade-offs: assessing future urban growth scenarios for a North American trade corridor

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International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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The Sonoran Desert and Apache Highlands ecoregions of North America are areas of exceptionally high plant and vertebrate biodiversity. However, much of the vertebrate biodiversity is supported by only a few vegetation types with limited distributions, some of which are increasingly threatened by changing land uses. We assessed the impacts of two future urban growth scenarios on biodiversity in a binational watershed in Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico. We quantified and mapped terrestrial vertebrate species richness using Wildlife Habitat Relation models and validated the results with data from National Park Service (NPS) biological inventories. Future urban growth, based on historical trends, was projected to the year 2050 for (1) a 'Current Trends' (CT) scenario and (2) a 'Megalopolis' (MEGA) scenario that represented a transnational growth corridor with open-space conservation attributes. Based on CT, 45% of existing riparian woodland (267 of 451species) and 34% of semi-desert grasslands (215 of 451 species) will be lost, whereas in the MEGA scenario, these types would decline by 44% and 24%, respectively. Outcomes of the two models suggest a trade-off at the taxonomic class level: CT would reduce and fragment mammal and herpetofauna habitat, while MEGA would result in loss of avian-rich riparian habitat.

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“…This report is the most recent attempt to summarize research at Organ Pipe Cactus NM with the goal of producing an up-to-date species list for plants and vertebrates. In contrast to our work in other parks in the Sonoran Desert Network (e.g., Powell et al 2005a), we relied solely on the field work done by others to produce the species lists for Organ Pipe Cactus NM. Species inventories have both direct and indirect value for management of the monument.…”

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