Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) Dismissed at first as "rubbish & dull", Golding's brilliantly observed dystopian desert island tale has since become a classic.
High levels of naturally occurring nitrate were observed under desert pavement surfaces in NE Badia of Jordan.
Often observed in desert and endorheic regions, this greatly restricts the possibilities to determine an accurate abandonment age of alluvial surfaces in such environments.
Based upon rare earth element fractionation observed in desert varnish it has been argued that the degree of element fractionation observed is inconsistent with isochemical leaching and reprecipitation within the same rock [26].
Results from Narum et al. [ 14] specifically highlight the adaptive response of heat shock genes in redband trout, with lower hsp gene expression observed in desert versus montane strains.
The optimal growth temperature for this species is approximately 14 °C and yet populations of redband trout (a subspecies of rainbow trout in the Columbia River Basin, O. mykiss gairdneri) have been observed in desert streams with temperatures that reach nearly 30 °C (Rodnick et al. 2004; Zoellick 1999).
However, the sides of these apparent spirals have random lengths and therefore differ from systematic spiral searching patterns which have, for example, been observed in the desert isopod Hemilepistus reaumuri upon getting lost after an excursion from its burrow [21] and in desert ants (Cataglyphis) when returning to the nest after forging beyond the range of the known landmark map [22].
Over the years, I had observed how the desert is never silent and never still – the cries of small animals at night, the shrubs that vibrate with invisible insects, all of this had got under my skin.
In this study, we describe a natural experiment in which the dynamics of two populations of Anopheles sergentii was closely observed in two desert oases in Israel.
WUE was positively correlated with differential fitness in Boechera stricta [ 31], suggesting a contribution to fitness, but this was not observed in the desert annual Helianthus anomalus [ 32].
