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14. The Hummingbird and the Woodpecker

Bent, A. C. 1992. Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis.

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Sargent, R. 1999. Wild Bird Guides: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, Pa.

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16. Extreme Summer

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Alcock, John. 1990. Sonoran Desert Summer. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Brain, C. K. 1981. Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.

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Cowles, Raymond. 1977. Desert Journal: Reflections of a Naturalist. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

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Heinrich, B. 1984. “Strategies of Thermoregulation and Foraging in Two Wasps, Dolichovespula maculata and Vespula vulgaris,” Journal of Comparative Physiology B 154: 175–180.

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Lee, D. H. K. 1968. “Human Adaptation to Arid Environments.” In G. W. Brown Jr., Desert Biology, Vol. I. Academic, New York and London, pp. 517–563.

Martin, H. 1958. The Sheltering Desert. Thomas Nelson, Edinburgh, New York, and Toronto.

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Thomas, E. M. 1958/1989. The Harmless People, 2nd ed. Vintage, New York.

Toolson, E. C. 1987. “Water Profligacy as an Adaptation to Hot Deserts: Water Loss Rates and Evaporative Cooling in the Sonoran Desert Cicada, Diceroprocta apache (Homoptera: Cicadidae),” Physiological Zoology 60: 379–385.

Walsberg, G. E. 1982. “Coat Color, Solar Heat Gain, and Conspicuousness in Phainopepla,” Auk 99: 495–502.

Wehner, R. A. 1976. “Polarized Light Navigation by Insects,” Scientific American (July).

Wehner, R. A., C. Marsh, and S. Wehner. 1992. “Desert Ants on a Thermal Tightrope,” Nature 357: 586–587.


17. Moss, Lichens, and Tweedlaarkanniedood

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