Life on a tall cactus
Kirk R. 1973. Life on a tall cactus. Audubon Magazine
Magazine article describing broad diversity of cactus and other wildlife in the Sonoran Desert. Descriptions of saguaro pollination, growth, root systems, physical characteristics.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Kirk, Ruth
- Date of Issue
- 1973-07
- Publisher
- Audubon Magazine
- Units
- SAGU
- Keywords
- barrel cactus, cactus wren, cardon, Carnegie Desert Laboratory, cristate saguaros, curve billed thrasher, elf owl, Forrest Shreeve, gila woodpecker, long nosed bat, necrosis, night-blooming cereus, nurse trees, organ pipe, Papago Indians, peccary, pollinators, prickly pear, saguaro, senita, Sonoran Desert, Warren Steenbergh
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Desert Communities , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Complex , NPS.gov Subject Site: Biodiversity , NPS.gov Subject Site: Deserts