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	DDL: Overview of the Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Others deserts at higher altitudes, such as the Chihuahuan Desert, may be home to fewer cacti, but contain many shrubs like mesquite or creosote bushes with their own animal residents.
		For example, although the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts are in the same latitude, the Sonoran is hotter than the Chihuahuan because it is at a lower altitude.
		A "rain shadow" desert often forms when there are two mountain ranges, one on the east and one on the west of a land expanse, which block moist ocean air from reaching the land.
	www.nides.bc.ca /Assignments/Biomes1/Desert2_files/overview.html (1446 words)

	Sonoran Desert Natural History Information
		Desert grassland or chaparral borders the northern Sonoran Desert on the east.
		Though the Chihuahuan Desert is the southernmost, it lies at a fairly high elevation and there is no barrier to arctic air masses, so hard winter freezes are common.
		This was Shreve's seventh subdivision of the Sonoran Desert.
	www.desertmuseum.org /desert/sonora.html (2433 words)

	Deserts of the World by Jim Cornish
		The Great Basin Desert, the largest U. desert, covers an arid expanse of about 190,000 square miles and is bordered by the Sierra Nevada Range on the west and the Rocky Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau to the north and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts to the south.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is the easternmost and southernmost of the four North American deserts: the Great Basin Desert, the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert, and the Chihuahuan Desert.
		Sahara Desert, is a great desert area, lying in Northern Africa, and the western portion of the broad belt of arid land,extends from the Atlantic Ocean eastward past the Red Sea to Iraq.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/desert_world.htm (978 words)

	MyWestTexas.com - Chihuahuan Desert losing cacti to poachers
		Cactus poaching and the legal harvesting of species of cacti, including rare flowering species, in the expansive Chihuahuan Desert in the Southwestern United States and into Mexico are endangering rare species of the native plants, disrupting the ecosystem, and depriving wildlife of natural habitats.
		"Desert dwellers from hummingbirds to mountain lions rely on desert plants for food or shelter," according to Christopher Robbins, a biologist who co-authored a report on the worldwide demand, both legal and fl-market, for Chihuahuan Desert cacti.
		The 250,000-square-mile Chihuahuan Desert, which is almost the size of Texas and skirts the Midland area, is home to almost a quarter of the 1,500 cactus species identified by science, according the Washington, D.C.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
	www.mywesttexas.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=7232110&BRD=2288&PAG=461 (1079 words)

	Chihuahuan Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chihuahuan Desert' is a desert that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.
		Yucca, Creosote, and Mesquite typify the plants in the Chihuahuan desert
		The Chihuahuan Desert is higher in elevation than the Sonoran Desert to the west, mostly varying from 600 m to 1,675 m (1,970-5,500 feet) in altitude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chihuahuan_Desert (378 words)

	CHIHUAHUAN CACTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Chihuahuan Desert does not have the large, spectacular, columnar cacti associated with the Sonoran Desert, such as the saguaro, cardon, organ pipe and senita.
		It is found on limestone soils in the Chihuahuan Desert of southeastern New Mexico, sothwest Texas and Mexico.
		There are several types of rainbow cactus in different desert regions, but the Texas rainbow is common in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico and in restricted regions of southern New Mexico and Texas.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/desertecology/chicacti.htm (986 words)

	The Chihuahuan Desert: diversity at risk Endangered Species Bulletin - Find Articles
		The Chihuahuan Desert is a land of superlatives.
		The desert is bounded to the east and west by the ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra Madre Occidental, respectively.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is punctuated by large lake basins and crisscrossed by drainages--indicators of a time thousands of years ago when water was more plentiful and lakes and flowing rivers were abundant.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ASV/is_2_27/ai_90098608 (869 words)

	Chihuahuan Desert - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chihuahuan Desert, arid zone in northern Mexico and southern United States.
		Desert, term applied to regions of the Earth that are characterized by less than about 250 mm (10 in) of annual rainfall, and, in most cases, an...
		Arabian Desert, arid region, eastern Egypt, lying between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez to the east, the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Chihuahuan_Desert.html (117 words)

	Vegetation Around Las Vegas, North American Deserts
		The Mojave Desert is a hot, dry desert that receives small amounts of seasonally and annually unpredictable precipitation, mostly during the winter (generally less than 6 inches of rain, many areas receiving less than 4 inches annually).
		The Sonoran Desert is a warm, low-elevation (generally less than 2,000 feet) subtropical desert that receives relatively large amounts of predictable rain during two rainy seasons: the winter season and the summer monsoon season.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is a hot, high-elevation desert that receives moderate amounts of predictable precipitation (mostly less than 10 inches) during the summer monsoon season.
	www.birdandhike.com /Veg/NA_Deserts/NA_Deserts.htm (714 words)

	The Chihuahuan Desert:Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information
		North America's largest desert, the Chihuahuan, occupies 175,000 square miles of the United States' Southwest and Mexico, an area two-thirds the size of the state of Texas.
		Deserts are defined by dryness, and the Chihuahuan is no exception.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is also defined by the timing of its precipitation.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Southwest/TheChihuahuanDesertWildLi.html (499 words)

	CHIHUAHUAN DESERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Chihuahuan Desert extends over a large area of northern Mexico and projects into the southern part of the USA, including west Texas (for example, the Big Bend National Park) and parts of New Mexico and Arizona.
		The Chihuahuan Desert shows very clear changes of vegetation as we move from the lower lying regions to increasingly higher elevations.
		As we move even higher into the mountain canyons, the desert grassland is replaced by desert scrub, including bushes and small trees such as shrub live oak, mormon tea and jojoba (image 4).
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/desbiome/chihua.htm (773 words)

	Chihuahuan Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Chihuahuan Desert is a perfect example of the old saying that "bigger is not necessarily always better." While this desert area is the biggest of the major desert areas in North America, life here is hard.
		Soils in some areas of the Chihuahuan Desert provide evidence of the volcanism that occurred in the area during the Eocene and Miocene eras (58 to 113 million years ago).
		Although the Chihuahuan Desert is arid during the majority of the year, it has one period of high precipitation during the summer.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2000TexNatHist/TexasNatHist/Members/LachowskyR/Default.htm (1123 words)

	Chihuahuan Desert Home Page
		In Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert lies within the Central Plateau, bounded on the west by the Sierra Madre Occidental and on the east by the Sierra Madre Oriental, with its southern boundary in Zacatecas.
		Unlike the Sonoran Desert, where large cacti and small trees are prominent in many areas, the Chihuahuan Desert is predominantly a shrub desert.
		The combined Chihuahuan Desert Gardens and Plants pages also have images of many of the regional plants, along with information about the plants; the pages are searchable by scientific or common names and by keywords.
	www.museum.utep.edu /chih/chihdes.htm (665 words)

	What is Range? - Rangeland Types - Chihuahuan Desert
		While it is true that deserts are a result of low levels of precipitation and high temperatures throughout the year, many of these landscapes are teeming with life beyond cactus, raptors, and rattlesnakes.
		Although the Chihuahuan Desert is large, the climate across the region is relatively consistent.
		A subset of the Chihuahuan desert is the Desert Grasslands.
	www.cnrhome.uidaho.edu /default.aspx?pid=85872 (867 words)

	Desert Moss Floristics - Mosses of Nevada On-line
		Deserts are characterized by sporadic and episodic rainfall, in which a drought of several months can be followed by a high intensity rain event that may represent a third of the annual precipitation.
		In general, desert soils are dry for most of the year, are distinctly low in organic content, N, and P, are rich in inorganic ions composing carbonates and gypsum, are high in calcium, and are alkaline.
		Personal observations in the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada indicate that, where livestock grazing is presently occurring or has recently occurred, soil crustal communities are severely damaged or absent entirely, and the bryophytes are restricted to boulder and rock outcrops.
	heritage.nv.gov /mosses/florstms.htm (3986 words)

	The Chihuahuan Desert
		One important characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert is the many small mountain ranges which run through it, including the Franklins in Texas, and the San Andres and Doña Anas in New Mexico.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is a fairly dry desert, with only one intense rainy season in the summer, and mild rains in the early winter, usually in December.
		In the 1850s, the grass in the northern Chihuahuan Desert was said to grow as high as the belly of a horse.
	horizon.nmsu.edu /chihuahua.html (1282 words)

	Desert Regions
		The Intermountain Desert encompasses several regions between the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains in the west and the Rocky Mountains in the east.
		We visit the Great Basin Desert on the return trip for the fieldcourse through the Pacific Northwest, and we spend one night at Great Basin National Park in Nevada (near the border with Utah).
		In some ways, the Mojave Desert is a transition between the Intermountain Desert to the north and the Sonoran Desert to the south.
	www.fhsu.edu /biology/Eberle/DesertSW/Deserts.htm (491 words)

	Habitat Awareness Desert Page
		Deserts are among the most fragile ecosystems on our planet because of the harsh extremes of heat and lack of moisture.
		Desert oases occur where the water table is near the surface of the desert.
		The Gobi desert is the fifth largest desert area in the world and one of the most hostile with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.
	www.inchinapinch.com /hab_pgs/terres/desert/desert.htm (2239 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute was established in the spring of 1974 as a nonprofit scientific and educational organization.
		Its mission is to gather and publicize data on the Chihuahuan Desert of the United States and Mexico.
		The Chihuahuan Desert Visitor Center, on State Highway 118 four miles south of Fort Davis, was established in 1978 with the purchase of 507 acres of wooded grasslands.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/sqc1.html (471 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science » Networks: Chihuahuan Desert Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Deserts, by their very name, are seldom regarded as important reservoirs of biological diversity, but some deserts are extraordinarily rich in species, rare plants and animals, specialized habits, and unique biological communities.
		The Chihuahuan Desert shared by two nations is the most biologically diverse desert in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most diverse arid regions in the world.
		The eastern boundary of the Chihuahuan Desert is one of the oldest and richest centers of plant evolution on the North American continent.
	www1.nature.nps.gov /im/units/chdn/index.cfm (367 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Chihuahuan desert (NA1303)
		The Chihuahuan Desert stretches from the southeastern corner of Arizona across southern New Mexico and west Texas to the Edwards Plateau in the United States.
		This Desert is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west and the Sierra Madre Oriental to the east, extending as far south as San Luis Potosi and to disjunct islands of the Chihuahuan vegetation in the states of Queretaro and Hidalgo.
		The Chihuahuan desert is one of the three most biologically rich and diverse desert ecoregions in the world, rivaled only by the Great Sandy Tanmi Desert of Australia and the Namib-Karoo of southern Africa (Olson and Dinerstein 1998).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1303_full.html (2217 words)

	Cactus Rustling Threatens Chihuahuan Desert
		The report, the largest ever analysis of trade in Chihuahuan plants, finds that unsustainable trade could endanger certain cactus populations, along with the species that depend upon them, if measures are not taken to regulate harvesting.
		The Chihuahuan Desert is one of the most biologically rich deserts in the world, rivaled only by the Namib-Karoo of Africa and the Great Sandy Desert of Australia.
		The desert is also home to almost a quarter of the 1,500 cactus species known to science, including many species found nowhere else.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2003/2003-01-20-06.asp (1008 words)

	Living Desert State Park, Carlsbad, New Mexico
		With a relatively low elevation of 3,400 feet, and summer temperatures that often exceed 100°F, this part of New Mexico is still classed as desert land, part of the Chihuahuan Desert which also extends across southeast Arizona, west Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
		The varied plants and animals of this arid region are exhibited in the Living Desert State Park, which occupies several acres of cacti and yucca-strewn land on the edge of the Ocotillo Hills, overlooking the Pecos river valley just northwest of town.
		Plants: The park grounds include many naturally-growing Chihuahuan desert plants, but non-native species such as the giant saguaro have been added, and several nature trails lead past many types of cacti, agaves, yuccas, trees and bushes, including the distinctive spiky ocotillo after which the surrounding hills were named.
	www.americansouthwest.net /new_mexico/living_desert/state_park.html (314 words)

	Southern New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert — a pulsating concerto of earth and sky:Southern New Mexico ...
		The Living Desert State Park is an indoor and outdoor self- guided tour of the native animal and plant species of the desert.
		In fact, Carlsbad, located at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan desert, is an excellent base if you are planning to explore Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the surrounding area.
		As you fall asleep, your last image is of a billion stars overhead (in the desert, away from city lights, you can see them all) with the sound of the desert "nightlife" playing in your ears.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Southwest/SouthernNewMexicoChihuahu.html (841 words)

	Cactus Smugglers Threatening Desert Ecosystems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Desert dwellers from humming birds to mountain lions rely on desert plants for food or shelter—removing the cactus can be as disruptive to the ecosystem as clearcutting a forest," he said.
		The Chihuahuan desert is one of the world's most biologically diverse and threatened arid regions, supporting 23 percent of the world's known 1,500 cactus species.
		The prickly pear is one of the numerous species of cactus that may be at risk from smuggling and unregulated harvesting in the Chihuahuan desert.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/04/0421_030421_cactus.html (823 words)

	Chihuahuan Desert Region — New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This desert is one of the most biologically rich and diverse ecoregions in the world (Olson and Dinerstein 1998).
		In New Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert region is found throughout the south-central and southeastern part of the state, with finger-like extensions protruding north up the Rio Grande and Pecos River valleys into the central part of the state.
		The northern portion of the Chihuahuan Desert is a dry grassland ecosystem dominated by shrubs and native grasses.
	www.nmwild.org /places/desert (489 words)

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