The desert cottontail lives where the water is. So does everyone else.

Snakes will never win a popularity contest.The low-profile reptiles have amassed a following of haters that dates back to Biblical times. The “serpent” is often associated with deception, danger and e...

The Phoenix Area Social Survey parallels the Ecological Survey of Central Arizona as a major component of CAP LTER.

Elemental phosphorus is too volatile to exist in nature.Expose a pure sample to air, and it could easily burst into flames. But connect a few oxygen atoms in water, and phosphorus becomes phosphate, a...

Thermophilization of communities, or shifts in composition favoring more warm-adapted species, over time and space is a common response to warming from global climate change and localized effects of ....

July 13-17, 2026 Princeton University

Mosquitoes aren’t just a nuisance; they can carry diseases like West Nile virus, which can be transmitted to humans — and research shows their populations are on the rise in the U.S. despite city- and...

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

Animals living in urban desert ecosystems are affected by temperature extremes and altered hydrological regimes. Cities can alter both the physical and biotic environment by increasing temperature an...

Globally, the most bioavailable elements (Ca, Mg, and K) are amongst the most abundant in the crust, but N is more abundant than predicted Bioavailability was controlled by soil pH, organic matte...

In urban and suburban areas, wildlife and people are often in close quarters, leading to human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Understanding how wildlife interacts with humans and the built environment i...

CAP LTER researchers are continually working to use remote sensing methods to monitor the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of landscape and climate conditions.

Connecting ad hoc units with units in an ontology is a first step towards using metadata annotations to enhance the interoperability and reusability of environmental data.

As wildfires increasingly threaten arid regions, a new conceptual framework developed by a team of researchers offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between fire, water quality and ecosystem ...