Distinguishing Acuña cactus, a federally endangered species, from its close relatives using genetic information

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Shannon Fehlberg, Desert Botanical Garden The Acuña cactus, Echinomastus erectocentrus var. acunensis, is an endangered species with a restricted distribution in the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Population-level genetic analyses for this species are lacking, and taxonomic boundaries between E. erectocentrus var. acunensis and its close relatives E. erectocentrus var. erectocentrus […]

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Long-term Monitoring Data: Finding Some Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Kristin E. Haskins and Sheila Murray (The Arboretum at Flagstaff), and Andrea Hazelton (Desert Butte Botany) Acquisition of a long-term dataset is truly rare and can represent decades of hard work and thousands of dollars or more in exhausted resources. The standard model of monitoring year after year is unsustainable for most organizations and begs […]

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