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Transport Of A Juvenile Pinyon Mouse (Peromyscus Truei), J. R. Callahan, Daniel S. Compton

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Lehi's Dream Of The Tree Of Life: Springboard To Prophecy, Corbin T. Volluz

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Lehi’s dream of the tree of life is well known in Latter- day Saint circles. Its relationship to the vision of Nephi (1 Nephi 11–14), however, may not be so well known. This paper examines the proposition that Nephi’s vision was an expansive, prophetic interpretation of Lehi’s dream of the tree of life; gives an alternate interpretation of Lehi’s dream as a guide to the afterlife; and links Lehi’s dream, the Garden of Eden, and the temple.

“Is Mormonism Christian?” Reflections On A Complicated Question, Jan Shipps

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Fishing On The Kennet: The Victorian Boyhood Of James E. Talmage, 1862-1876, Dennis Rowley

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Writing To Zion: The William W. Phelps Kirtland Letters (1835-1836), Bruce A. Van-Orden

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Squirrels As Predators, J. R. Callahan

Great Basin Naturalist

A literature review and field observations indicate that most sciurids are facultative predators on small vertebrates. This behavior is documented for at least 30 sciurid species in 8 genera. The frequency of predation apparently is influenced by various factors including climate, season, gender, reproductive condition, and availability of plant sources for certain nutrients such as calcium and nitrogen. Although sciurids assimilate as much energy from animal foods as do obligate carnivores, behavior associated with predation appears to be less efficient in sciurids and may rely partly on prey habituation and other adaptive behaviors.

Autumn And Winter Foods Of The Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus) (Galliformes: Tetraonidae), Terry Z. Riley, Charles A. Davis, Randall A. Smith

Great Basin Naturalist

Descriptions of Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) foods in New Mexico have not included comparison between autumn and winter seasons. We analyzed and compared prairie-chicken crop contents in autumn 1976 (n = 9) and 1977 (n = 17) and winter 1977 (n = 4) and 1978 (n = 2) in a shinnery oak (Quercus havardii) grassland in southeastern New Mexico. Autumn foods were a mixture of seeds (x̄ = 43%), vegetative material (x̄ = 39%), and insects (x̄ = 18%), especially shinnery oak acorns and insect galls (x̄ = …

Establishment Of Shoshone Sculpin (Cottus Greenei) In A Spring Inhabited By Mottled Sculpin (C. Bairdi), Derek B. Kuda, J. S. Griffith

Great Basin Naturalist

The Shoshone sculpin (Cottus greenei) is found only in springs of the Thousand Springs formation along the Snake River in Idaho. In 1983 a small population of Shoshone sculpin was introduced into an unnamed spring in the Thousand Springs formation in an attempt to increase the range of the species. Previously, the only sculpin in that spring was the mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi). The Shoshone sculpin was able to establish itself and become the predominant fish within 8 years.

Full Issue, Vol. 53 No. 2

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

On The Relative Importance Of Floral Color, Shape, And Nectar Rewards In Attracting Pollinators To Mimulus, Steven D. Sutherland, Robert K. Vickery Jr.

Great Basin Naturalist

Pollinator preferences were observed for the six species of section Erythranthe of the genus Mimulus using greenhouse-grown plants placed in a meadow in the Red Butte Canyon Natural Area, Salt Lake County, Utah. The principal pollinators were hummingbirds and bumble bees. Hummingbirds preferred the species with the most reflexed tubular flowers regardless of color, whereas bumblebees preferred pink. lavender, or yellow flowers to red flowers regardless of shape. Results for the six species were confirmed by observations of F₂ hybrid recombinant plants selected such that flower color could be held constant and flower shape varied and vice versa.

Late Quaternary Vegetation And Climate In The Escalante River Basin On The Central Colorado Plateau, Kim Withers, Jim I. Mead

Great Basin Naturalist

Five alcoves (rock shelters) in the Forty-Mile Canyon–Willow Gulch area of the Escalante River Basin in southeastern Utah yielded rich deposits of late Quaternary macrobotanical remains. The deposits were sampled and the contents identified in order to construct a chronology of vegetational change. Fourteen radiocarbon dates indicate that the fossils were deposited between 12,690 and 7510 yr B.P. (years before present).

Ninety-one plant taxa were identified, 62 to species. Six species were common to all alcoves: Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii), box-elder (Acer negundo), prickly pear (Opuntia subgenus Platyopuntia), skunkbush (Rhus aromatica var. trilobata), …

Sources Of Japanese Electronic Information, Scott Edward Harrison, Reiko Sudo

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Archival And Library Resources Within The Mid-Atlantic States Region For Advancing Scholarship In East Asian Studies, Frank Joseph Shulman

Journal of East Asian Libraries

The Mid-Atlantic States region is the home to a vast array of archival and library resources that have long-term research value for scholars and students interested in the history, politics, commerce and culture of the countries of East Asia and in American interaction with China, Japan and Korea. A series of fifteen panels between 1977 and 1991 presented a wide range of papers about some of these resources at the annual meetings of the Mid-Atlantic Region/Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS).

The Semantics Of Certainty In Quechua And Its Implications For A Cultural Epistemology, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

This article contributes to attempts on the part of Quechua scholars to understand the evidential system of this language family, and thereby paves the way for a more complex understanding of Quechua speakers' language and culture. The author opposes the position that the most general meaning of the -mi suffix is to indicate a direct or first-hand experience; and she holds that specific claims about Quechua speakers' epistemological orientations, based on such an analysis, cannot be supported. Evidence from speakers' use of -mi indicates that it encodes two paradigmatic contrasts: one is status-like or modal, the other evidential. The patterning …

Cyanobacteria And Cyanolichens: Can They Enhance Availability Of Essential Minerals For Higher Plants?, Kimball T. Harper, Rosemary L. Pendleton

Great Basin Naturalist

In both field and greenhouse studies, cyanobacterial and cyanolichens of cold-temperature deserts often enhance growth and essential uptake by associated herbs. That effect is associated with better seedling establishment and larger seedlings. The following are possible mechanisms for these effects: (1) the microbiota concentrate essential elements in available forms in soil surface layers, (2) the microbial surface covers are usually darker colored than the soil itself and produce warmer soils during cool seasons when soil water is most available, (3) the gelatinous sheaths of several cyanobacterial genera common on alkaline deserts contain chelating compounds, and (4) conditions that favor persistent …

Microbial Spatial Heterogeneity In Microbiotic Crusts In Colorado National Monument. I. Algae, Anne E. Grondin, Jeffrey R. Johansen

Great Basin Naturalist

Spatial heterogeneity in visually similar sites under Utah juniper canopy in Colorado National Monument was examined. Sample sites were arranged in a transect 24 m long, such that distances between samples were 0.013 m, 0.03 m, 1.0 m, 12 m, and 24 m. Twenty-five taxa of algae were observed, mostly belonging to Cyanophyta. Algal density varied by more than an order of magnitude within the 46 samples examined. The coefficients of variation for each distance class were very similar, demonstrating that algal patchiness can be as significant on a scale less than 0.013 m as it is on a scale …

Introduction To The Symposium On Soil Crust Communities, Larry L. St. Clair, Jeffrey R. Johansen

Great Basin Naturalist

Soil crust communities in semiarid and arid lands around the world have received increasing attention in the past two decades. A symposium on their ecology was presented at the annual meeting of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society held in 1991 in San Antonio, Texas. An introduction to the topic and an overview of the papers appearing in the proceedings volume are given in this prologue.

Bryophytes On The Calcareous Soils Of Mungo National Park, An Arid Area Of Southern Central Australia, A. J. Downing, P. M. Selkirk

Great Basin Naturalist

Bryophytes were found to be abundant as components of microbiotic soil crusts on the calcareous soils of Mungo National Park, an arid area of southern central Australia. Six sites that reflected differences in soils, topography, and vascular plant vegetation were studied. At each site bryophytes were abundant, both in terms of number of species present and percent ground cover. Number of species present did not differ significantly between sites, but percent bryophyte cover was lower at a site on sand dunes in mallee woodland and a site on a silcrete ridge than at the four other sites. Environmental factors (soil …

Full Issue, Vol. 53 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Deseret Language And Linguistics Society

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Markedness Effects In Welsh Plural Forms, Arle R. Lommel

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Microbial Spatial Heterogeneity In Microbiotic Crusts In Colorado National Monument. Ii. Bacteria, Catherine Cole Wheeler, Valerie R. Flechtner, Jeffrey R. Johansen

Great Basin Naturalist

Microbial spatial heterogeneity and bacterial composition of homogeneous surface soils showing evident microbiotic crust development located under Utah juniper canopies in Colorado National Monument were studied. Four distinct homogeneous sampling sites positioned along a 12-m transect were compared on the basis of bacterial density and taxa composition.

Bacterial densities showed a range differing by several orders of magnitude. In comparisons of adjacent soil samples or samples taken from two different sampling sites within close proximity, adjacent samples showed no more similarity to each other on the basis of bacterial density or taxa composition than did more widely separated samples. The …

Cryptogams, Vascular Plants, And Soil Hydrological Relations: Some Preliminary Results From The Semiarid Woodlands Of Eastern Australia, D. J. Eldridge

Great Basin Naturalist

Grazed and ungrazed sites were examined in a semiarid woodland in eastern Australia to determine relationships within various types of cryptogams, and the role of cryptogams in pasture dynamics, infiltration, and water erosion. Strong relationships were found between vascular plant cover and cover of cryptogams for nine rangeland sites over an 18-month period. In the absence of vascular plants, sites with low cover of cryptogams were dominated by algae. The presence of a cryptogamic crust had no significant effect on infiltration at ungrazed sites but significantly increased infiltration at some grazed sites. Splash erosion was very low on soils with …

A Description Of Bridge, An Army Research Institute-Sponsored, Nlp-Based, Foreign Language Tutor, Cathie E. Alderks

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

The Methods And Purposes Of Linguistic Genetic Classification, Joseph H. Greenberg

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Lichens Of Soil Crust Communities In The Intermountain Area Of The Western United States, Larry L. St. Clair, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth

Great Basin Naturalist

Lichens are common components of microbiotic soil crusts. A total of 34 species from 17 genera are reported from soil crust communities throughout the Intermountain Area. Distribution of terricolous lichens is determined by various physical and biological factors: physical and chemical characteristics of the soil, moisture regimes, temperature, insolation, and development and composition of the vascular plant community. Some species demonstrate a broad ecological amplitude while others have a more restricted distribution. All growth forms are represented; however, the vast majority of soil crust lichens are squamulose (minutely foliose). Fruticose species are least abundant. In exposed, middle-elevation sites vagrant (detached) …

Review Of Byne, W. And Parsons, B. (1993) Human Sexual Orientation: The Biologic Theories Reappraised, Archives Of General Psychiatry, 50, Pp. 228-239., Erin D. Bigler

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Gold, Islam And Camels: The Transformative Effects Of Trade And Ideology, Alice Willard

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of Kinsey, Sex And Fraud: The Indoctrincation Of A People By Reisman, J. A. & Eichel, E. W., Kevin M. Marett

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Interview: The Biological Evidence For Homosexuality Reappraised, William Byne

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Because of recent media reports and public interest in the role of biological and genetic factors in the development of homosexuality, the editor decided some information regarding this topic might be useful for AMCAP members. Dr. William Byne has recently published several professional articles in which he has criticized the biological and genetic evidence relevant to the etiology of homosexuality. Dr. Byne graciously consented to be interviewed for the AMCAP Journal.