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Creators

This page was created by the Arid Lands Information Center (ALIC) at The Office of Arid Lands Studies, College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona. The web site features content and images created in 2002 by Professor Christina Kennedy, Department of Geography and Public Planning, Northern Arizona University.

Other major sources of information for this web site were adapted, with permission, from the following resources:

• Arid Lands Colloquia, 1958-1959. The University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. Part of a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support an inter-disciplinary pilot study of the fundamental biological and physical mechanisms at work in the arid regions of the world.
• McGinnies, William G. February, 1976. An Overview of the Sonoran Desert. An Essay Developed from a Paper given at the opeing session of the Second Annual Conference of the Consortium of Arid Lands Institutions (CALI), February 4, 1976, in Tucson, Arizona.
• Nabhan, Gary Paul and Andrew R. Holdsworth. March, 1998. State of the Sonoran Desert Biome: Uniqueness, Biodiversity, Threats and the Adequacy of Protection in the Sonoran Bioregion. Tucson, Arizona: The Wildlands Project.

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All of the materials in this web site are copyrighted by the Arid Lands Information Center, Office of Arid Lands Studies at The University of Arizona, under the auspices of the Arizona Board of Regents. In general, the text is copyrighted by the author(s); images used on the site are copyrighted by the photographer(s); and the web site itself, along with all of its contents as coded and arranged for the web, are copyrighted by The University of Arizona. Materials from this site may not be published on any web site or used in any commercial endeavor in any form without written permission from the Arid Lands Information Center and/or the individual copyright holder. Some materials are copyrighted by other entities, and are used by the Arid Lands Information Center with their permission. In such cases, permission must be granted by the copyright holder. If you have questions about specific content or web design, please contact the OALS Webmaster.

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