The Southwestern Naturalist

Contents 47(2) June 2002

Feature Articles

Spatial and temporal patterns of xylem water potential in Juniperus ashei seedling. Rob Wayne and O. W. Van Auken.

Spatial distribution of three globose cacti in relation to different nurse-plant canopies and bare areas. María C. Mandujano, Arturo Flores-Martinez, Jordan Golubov, and Exequiel Ezcurra.

Microhabitat segregation of two Utah sand dune tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). William L. Romey and C. Barry Knisley.

Does the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, shape its mound to catch the morning sun? William L. Romey.

Distribution and abundance of the Rio Grande sucker in the Carson and Santa Fe National Forests, New Mexico. Bob Calamusso and John N. Rinne.

Distribution and abundance of the goldstripe darter (Etheostoma parvipinne) in Missouri. M. R. Winston.

Comparison of diets of prickly sculpin and juvenile fall-run chinook salmon in the lower Mokelumne River, California. Joseph E. Merz.

Reproductive cycle and characteristics of the widely-foraging lizard, Cnemidophorus communis, from Jalisco, Mexico. Aurelio Ramírez-Bautistia and Diana Pardo-De la Rosa.

Reproduction in female razorback musk turtles (Sternotherus carinatus: Kinosternidae). John B. Iverson.

Terrestrial habitat use by western pond turtles in a Mediterranean climate. Galen B. Rathbun, Norman J. Scott, Jr., and Thomas G. Murphey.

Evaluating the efficacy of manipulating cowbird parasitism on host nesting success. Michael L. Morrison and Annalaura Averill-Murray.

The mammals of coastal Texas: a comparison between mainland and barrier island faunas. Christine L. Hice and David J. Schmidly.

Geographic variation in the black bear (Ursus americanus) in the eastern United States and Canada. Michael L. Kennedy, Phyllis K. Kennedy, Michael A. Bogan, and Juliann L. Waits.

Characteristics of bolus nests of red squirrels in the Pinaleño and White Mountains of Arizona. Paul J. Young, Vicki L. Greer, and Sheri K. Six.

Graminivory by Dipodomys ordii and Dipodomys merriami on four species of perennial grasses. M. P. Sipos, M. C. Andersen, W. G. Whitford, and W. R. Gould.

Trends in abundance of grassland birds following a spring prescribed burn in southern Arizona. Chris Kirkpatrick, Stephen Destefano, R. William Mannan, and John Lloyd.

Notes

Helminth parasites of six species of anurans from Los Tuxtlas and Catemaco Lake, Veracruz, Mexico. Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, Guillermo Salgado Maldonado, Rafael Báez, and Cristina Cañeda.

Quantification of body coloration for the lesser earless lizard, Holbrookia maculata: evidence for interpopulational differences. Stephen B. Hager.

Helminths of the western diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, from southeast New Mexico rattlesnake roundups. Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, and Charles W. Painter.

Reproduction and mating behavior in the Del Nido ridgenose rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi amabilis. Robert W. Bryson, Jr., and David Lazcano.

Status of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) in Kansas. Raymond S. Matlack and Ryan L. Rehmeier.

First direct evidence of a green sea turtle migration from Michoacán, México, to a feeding ground on the Sonoran Coast of the Gulf of California. Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Javier Alvarado, Jose Luis Lopez, and f. Gabriel Hoeffer.

Recent records of North American badger, Taxidea taxus, in Baja California, Mexico. Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Roberto Martínez-Gallardo, Jorge Alaníz-García, Salvador González-Guzmán, and Ricardo Eaton-González.

Effects of habitat fragmentation on movement of small mammals along a Kansas highway. Matthew E. Hopton and Jerry R. Choate.

New records of mammals from Harding County, New Mexico. Keith Geluso.

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