Vegetation productivity responses to drought on tribal lands in the four corners region of the Southwest USA
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DOI: 10.1007/s11707-017-0646-z
Abstract: For more than a decade, the Four Corners Region has faced extensive and persistent drought conditions that have impacted vegetation communities and local water resources while exacerbating soil erosion. These persistent droughts threaten ecosystem services,… read more here.
Keywords: drought; vegetation productivity; vegetation; four corners ... See more keywords
Geochemical constraints on mantle-melt sources for Oligocene to Pleistocene mafic rocks in the Four Corners region, USA
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DOI: 10.1130/ges01314.1
Abstract: Small masses of intraplate mafic plutonic and volcanic rocks are exposed in the Navajo volcanic field (26–24 Ma), Dulce dike swarm (25–20 Ma), and western San Juan Mountains (7–0.6 Ma) along the eastern boundary of the Colorado Plateau.… read more here.
Keywords: mantle; region; corners region; four corners ... See more keywords
Prehistoric mitochondrial DNA of domesticate animals supports a 13th century exodus from the northern US southwest
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178882
Abstract: The 13th century Puebloan depopulation of the Four Corners region of the US Southwest is an iconic episode in world prehistory. Studies of its causes, as well as its consequences, have a bearing not only… read more here.
Keywords: prehistoric mitochondrial; mitochondrial dna; dna domesticate; 13th century ... See more keywords
Contributors to reduced life expectancy among Native Americans in the Four Corners States
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256307
Abstract: To assess trends in life expectancy and the contribution of specific causes of death to Native American-White longevity gaps in the Four Corners states, we used death records from the National Center for Health Statistics… read more here.
Keywords: life expectancy; life; native american; four corners ... See more keywords
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome—The 25th Anniversary of the Four Corners Outbreak
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DOI: 10.3201/eid2411.180381
Abstract: During the spring of 1993, a mysterious respiratory disease struck the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Persons who became ill were generally young and previously healthy before succumbing to an acute febrile… read more here.
Keywords: hantavirus pulmonary; 25th anniversary; syndrome 25th; pulmonary syndrome ... See more keywords