Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

Strolling along the museum's 2 miles of hiking trails, visitors get acquainted with the desert landscape via animal exhibits that mingle with native plants ... the morning or near closing as ...

composition and ecological processes of desert food plants. While the resulting desert vegetation assemblages will not look ...

Not much has changed at Ironwood Forest National Monument since President Clinton set aside the remote swath of mountains and desert west of Tucson in ... species of plants and animals, including ...

When desert ecosystems ... less available to plants and potentially providing competitive advantages to native species.In soils contaminated by heavy metals commonly near mining districts, adding ...